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K-Mac: Nobody likes a smartass. :lol:

Note that the topic said "limited to those which have been sponsored by Iran" – I'm not looking for terrorist attacks in general. I know that Iran is largely to blame for them all, ideologically, but I'm looking for acts similar to the Iranian hostage crisis for example – acts which have been proven to be direct acts of aggression by Iran.

I didn't have much success with Google, though IchorFigure's article was helpful (thanks).

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K-Mac: Nobody likes a smartass. :)

Now that's just not true! I didn't create that website! :lol:

http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000367.html

That looks like a pretty good, general list, although you'd have to search each event (or the ones you're not familiar with) to find out if it was tied to Iran.

This is sorta interesting too... http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_95/tersst.htm ...although not exactly what you're looking for either.

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The question you ask is difficult to answer due to the criteria. Most collections of data are organized by terrorist organization not by sponsoring nation. That being said, here is just a taste of what I could pull together on short notice.

Note: Hizbollah is featured specifically because they are an Iranian originated and sponsored and lead organization.

Nov 1, 1970

Tehran, Iran

Unknown

Weapon type: Firearms

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

IRAN. U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur A1 evaded a kidnap attempt. At least one shot was fired at the ambassador, and a hand axe was hurled through the rear window of his limousine. There were no injuries.

Jan 17, 1972

Tehran, Iran

Unknown

Weapon type: Explosives

Injuries: 2

Fatalities: 0

IRAN. The U.S. mission premises in Tehran were subjected to four bombings. Two local guards suffered injuries.

Mar 7, 1974

Tehran, Iran

Unknown

Weapon type: Explosives

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

IRAN. A bomb was tossed into the British embassy compound during the evening. There were no injuries, but some windows in the chancery were broken by the explosion.

Sep 7, 1979

Tehran, Iran

Amal

Weapon type: Missing/Unknown

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

IRAN. Three Lebanese gunmen hijacked an Italian Alitalia flight originating from Tehran with a stop in Beirut to protest the disappearance of their religious leader. The plane carrying 185 people was hijacked after the scheduled stop in Beirut. The hijackers were members of the Imam Sadr movement and residents of a Shiite suburb in Tehran. The hijackers commandeered the DC-8 jet over Cyprus; denied permission to land in France, they put down at Rome's Fiumicino Airport and sat through a 13-hour siege. They released 147 passengers two hours after touching down and let the last 28 passengers deplane later. The plane then departed and flew to Iran where they surrendered. The hijackers, students, denounced Libyan leader Qaddafi for the disappearance of their religious leader, Imam Musa Sadr.

Nov 5, 1979

Tehran, Iran

Other

Weapon type: Missing/Unknown

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

IRAN. Moslem students took over the British embassy and held twenty-seven British citizens hostage after Ayatollah Khomeini accused the UK of sheltering former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar. The students left six hours later after they understood that Bakhtiar was resident in France.

Apr 14, 1982

Geneva, Switzerland

Peykar

Weapon type: Missing/Unknown

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

SWITZERLAND. Eighteen Iranian leftists belonging to a Marxist group called Peykar ransacked the Iranian consulate in Geneva and held six officials hostage for several hours. Slogans attacking Ayatollah Khomeini were scrawled on the office walls. The group was protesting the execution in Iran of members of their organization. The hostages were later freed unharmed.

Feb 4, 1986

Paris, France

Committee of Solidarity with Arab and Middle East

Weapon type: Explosives

Injuries: 3

Fatalities: 0

FRANCE. A few hours after a bomb was defused at the Eiffel Tower, a bomb went off in a crowded bookshop in a popular tourist area of the Latin Quarter. At least three people were injured by the blast. The Committee of Solidarity with the Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners (CSPPA) claimed responsibility. Evidence has shown that the Iranian government was directly involved in the 1986 Paris bombings. [see 2/3/86 incident]

Mar 8, 1986

Lebanon

Hizballah

Weapon type: Missing/Unknown

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

LEBANON. A four-man French television crew disappeared while filming a rally by Hezbollah, a Shiite Moslem militia which supports the Islamic Jihad. The crew consisted of Philippe Rochot, Georges Hansen, Aurel Cornea, and Jean-Louis Normandin. A group calling itself the Revolutionary Justice Organization, believed to be another name for Hezbollah, claimed credit a few days later, stating that the group had kidnapped the four as "a warning to France and in the hope that the French people will...stop any (French) military or political intervention in Lebanon. Islamic Jihad warned France to meet the groups demands and delivered a videotape of three other kidnapped Frenchmen - diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton and journalist Jean-Paul Kauffman. In a reference to French naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean, Islamic Jihad said that "military parades by the French government will complicate the problem further." Philippe Rochot and Georges Hansen were freed on a waterfront street in Beirut on June 20, 1986. The Revolutionary Justice Organization claimed that they had freed the two journalists because of changes in France's Middle East policy and also because of mediation by Syria, Algeria and Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah. Hansen said that Aurel Cornea and Jean-Louis Normandin were in good condition but that he didn't know when they would be released. [Cornea was released December 24, 1986 as a Christmas goodwill gesture.] On February 6, 1987 the Revolutionary Justice Organization sent a note to a western news agency in Beirut, accompanied by pictures of Jean-Louis Normandin and Joseph Ciccipio (an American taken hostage 9/12/86). The group warned that any aggression by the U.S. military would place the captives' lives in danger. The group is also holding American Edward Tracy, kidnapped October 21, 1986 in West Beirut. The note also warned France about delivering arms to Iraq. Jean-Louis Normandin was released November 27, 1987. Also released t

Aug 28, 1986

Beirut, Lebanon

Hizballah

Weapon type: Missing/Unknown

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

LEBANON. In an attempt to pressure the Iraqi and French governments, Islamic Jihad kidnapped an Iraqi citizen in Beirut. The group claimed the Iraqi is a secret agent and offered to exchange him for the two Iraqi dissidents recently deported from France to Iraq.

Oct 3, 1986

Tehran, Iran

Unknown

Weapon type: Firearms

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

IRAN. The Syrian consul was kidnapped in Tehran when men in a BMW sedan and an ambulance intercepted his car and forced him into the ambulance. The assailants fired six shots into the air and sped away. Iyad Mahmoud was freed several hours later after high level contacts between the governments. The incident was downplayed by the Iranian government.

Oct 28, 1986

Zahedan, Iran

Unknown

Weapon type: Explosives

Injuries: 9

Fatalities: 0

IRAN. A bomb went off near the former offices of an Afghan opposition group in Zahedan. Nine people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.

Jan 30, 1987

Beirut, Lebanon

Hizballah

Weapon type: Missing/Unknown

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

LEBANON. U.S. officials announced that Anglican envoy Terry Waite was taken hostage in Lebanon. Mr. Waite's latest visit to Beirut to secure freedom for U.S. hostages began in early January, but direct contact with him was lost on January 20. He is believed to be held by Islamic Jihad. He was released on 18 November 1991.

Apr 23, 1987

Tehran, Iran

Other

Weapon type: Firearms

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

IRAN. An armed terrorist group attacked the residence of the Afghan charge d'affaires in Tehran, but were repulsed in an exchange of gunfire with guards.

Oct 24, 1987

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Amal

Weapon type: Explosives

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

KUWAIT. An office of Pan Am Airlines was bombed in Kuwait, two days after a pro-Iranian Shiite group had vowed to strike at U.S. and European interests worldwide. No one was injured by the blast. In December, 1987, a group calling itself the Organization for the Liberation of Muslims in Kuwait, declared responsibility for the attack.

Jan 27, 1988

Beirut, Lebanon

Hizballah

Weapon type: Firearms

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

LEBANON. A West German citizen who is half Lebanese, was abducted by four carloads of gunmen as he stood talking to a friend on a street near his home in west Beirut. The Revolutionary Justice Organization claimed responsibility. According to a senior Shiite official, the kidnapping of Ralph Schray is linked to the trial of Ali Abbas Hamadei in Germany, where he was standing charges of carrying concealed explosives. Hamadei is wanted by the U.S. on air piracy and murder charges in connection with the hijacking of a TWA passenger plane in 1985. Schray was released on March 3, 1988. It has been reported that another brother of Hamadei, Abdel Hadi, a senior military official of Hezbollah, directed this abduction.

Mar 13, 1988

Lagos, Nigeria

Amal

Weapon type: Firearms

Injuries: 3

Fatalities: 0

NIGERIA. Three Saudi diplomats were injured when they were fired on by a masked man who laid in wait in the parking lot of a hotel in Lagos. Pro-Iranian terrorists may have been responsible.

Jun 23, 1995

Nahariya, Israel

Hizballah

Weapon type: Explosives

Injuries: 8

Fatalities: 1

ISRAEL. A Club Med holiday resort in Nahariya in northern Israel was fired on with Katyusha rockets by Hezbollah guerrillas based in Lebanon. A French man was killed and eight people were injured. The attack was in retaliation of the killing of a young Lebanese teenager by SLA mortar rounds that were fired into Shaqra.

Jun 10, 1996

Lebanon

Hizballah

Weapon type: Firearms

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 5

LEBANON. Five Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush at 5:30am in occupied southern Lebanon by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

Aug 26, 1996

Manama, Bahrain

Unknown

Weapon type: Firearms

Injuries: 1

Fatalities: 0

BAHRAIN. The Russian embassy in the capital came under attack from two gunmen. A guard was wounded. The gunmen escaped in a waiting car. Iranian Shiite Moslems are suspected. Three men of unknown nationality were arrested in September.

Apr 8, 1999

Yuksekova, Turkey

Unknown

Weapon type: Explosives

Injuries: 3

Fatalities: 2

Cetin Deniz, a driver for the governor of Hakkari, Nihat Canpolat, was killed by a suicide bomber and three others, including the governor, were injured. The bomber, an Iranian citizen, blew himself up as the governor was leaving his visit in Yuksekova. Two men, accused of helping to plan the attack were detained by authorities shortly after the incident.

Apr 10, 2005

Nablus, West Bank/Gaza

Hizballah

Weapon type: Missing/Unknown

Injuries: 0

Fatalities: 0

Israeli police prevented a terror attack when they arrested a Fatah member, Firas Tanbor, who was planning to carry out a terrorist attack on behalf of Hezbollah. Police arrested Tanbor following a raid of the house he was hiding in in the Jibal Simali neighborhood of Nablus.

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