Iranian aggressors still target American troops in Iraq © Getty On October 1 of this year, Army Specialist Alexander Missildine was  killed by a highly lethal roadside bomb known as an explosively formed penetrator (EFP) in the Ninawa Province of Iraq. EFPs are the signature  weapon  of two Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-led militias in Iraq and the reappearance of this weapon after six years demonstrates that the Islamic Republic of Iran continues its campaign to kill American service members.   EFPs took the lives of many brave Americans deployed in Iraq, and wounded countless others, many of whom now live with their injuries at home, but are forever affected. While we can’t change the lives lost and injuries sustained from EFPs, we can work to ensure that the regime in Tehran cannot take the lives of any more Americans with this lethal weapon and are held responsible for their actions. This Veterans Day, I call upon Congr...

Veritas Victims Project Documenting Iran's Violence, Extremism, Repression and Terror view victims map For 35 years the Islamic Republic of Iran has used violence and brutality to consolidate power at home and spread its radical revolutionary ideology abroad. Peoples of varied religions, ethnicities, and nationalities have been victimized as a result of the regime’s flagrant disregard for human rights and radical revisionist ideology. For example, ethnic and religious minorities, gays, women, labor activists, and political dissidents have suffered brutal repression, imprisonment and discrimination. Dissidents deemed to be enemies have been tracked down and murdered abroad. In its quest for regional hegemony, Iran has used murder and terrorism to undermine stability and security in nations across the Middle East, causing tens of thousands of deaths. And beginning with the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, the Iranian regime has reserved a special animosity for the United States, ki...