- Beirut barracks bombing of 1982 - Kidnapping of CIA station chief William Buckley - Proliferation of Hamas, Hezbollah and other Iranian-funded proxies throughout south Asia People ask "what's our beef with Iran anyway" and the answer is that as soon as they decided they were independent and kicked the British out, we installed a puppet regime. And then when the Iranians kicked out that puppet regime, they took advantage of our lack of useful intelligence in the region to kick our asses in proxy battles for about a decade and a half. And while the US is great at flying drones overhead 24-7 and pissing off the populace of entire nations at a time, Iran is great at giving those pissed-off populaces a mission and enough money and weapons to carry it out.I wonder what the repercussions of US starting an all-out war with Iran would be