The conflict between Iran and Americans didn’t begin with recent headlines; for families like Robert Bartlett’s, it’s a war that has been waged for decades, leaving indelible physical and emotional scars. Bartlett himself ‘died three times’ after an Iranian-supplied explosively formed penetrator (EFP) tore through his Humvee in Baghdad in 2005, an attack that killed his comrade Staff Sgt. William Brooks and left him with catastrophic injuries. Federal courts have since found Iran, through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), responsible for arming, training, and directing proxy forces that carried out such devastating attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq. The families of Capt. Shawn English, killed by an EFP in 2006, and Maj. Stuart Wolfer, killed by an Iranian-supplied rocket in 2008, echo Bartlett’s sentiment, highlighting that their grief and the formal acknowledgment of Iran’s role in these attacks are not new but a continuation of a long, painful struggle. These court findings, often resulting in default judgments due to Iran’s non-appearance, confirm Iran’s material support for the attacks, a sophisticated campaign of proxy warfare designed to pressure the U.S. without direct confrontation. For Tricia English, the distinction that U.S. troops were targeted by a nation with which America was not formally at war underscores the calculated nature of Iran’s aggression. For Beverly Wolfer Nerenberg, the loss of her brother, a father of three young daughters, is a wound that remains raw, a constant reminder of the lives irrevocably altered by Iran’s long-running war against Americans, a conflict that continues to cast a shadow over the present day.
Adapted from: Latest World News on Fox News
