Foreign policy experts are advising the Trump administration to carefully watch Iran’s behavior over its terror proxy Hezbollah — a group with American blood on its hands. Hezbollah was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. in 1997.
Hezbollah’s History of Violence
Hezbollah has a five-decade-long track record of killing Americans, starting with the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut in 1983, attacks on U.S. embassies and airplane hijackings. The efforts continue to this day, with Hezbollah playing a key role in establishing, training, advising, and supporting the Iraqi militias, which are responsible for killing more than 600 American soldiers.
Hezbollah also trained al Qaeda to use suicide car bombs, which it implemented in the 1998 suicide attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and perfected in theaters such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
Recent Developments
In May 2025, a U.S. District Court determined that the torture of Lebanese American Amer Fakhoury was the responsibility of Iran, through its proxy Hezbollah. Fakhoury lost sixty pounds during a six-month period of captivity after being kidnapped by Hezbollah in Lebanon in September 2019. He died six months after his return to the U.S. of cancer that was diagnosed in prison in Lebanon.
A U.S. official told Fox News Digital that the Trump Administration is committed to securing the release of all Americans unjustly detained in Iran and around the world. The Iranian regime has a long and shameful history of unjustly detaining U.S. nationals and other foreign citizens.
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