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Iranian aggressors still target American troops in Iraq

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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...