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🚨For those of you who were not around in 1979, here is how it all started when the radical Mullahs overtook the Iranian people and took hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
NEVER FUCKING FORGET WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY.
This wasn’t some desk-jockey spook.
This was a battle-hardened CIA Station Chief in Beirut...a Green Beret legend who walked into that blood-soaked shithole in 1984 after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah suicide truck bomb vaporized our embassy and slaughtered dozens of Americans.
Buckley’s mission: rebuild the entire intel network those raghead savages had just gutted.
He knew the risk.
He went anyway.
On March 16, 1984, Hezbollah gunmen snatched him off a Beirut street like the gutless cowards they are.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah muscle...directed straight from Tehran..:took over.
For the next 15 months.
444 days.
They didn’t just kidnap him.
They waged a sadistic, systematic war on his body, mind, and soul.
Coffin-sized cell.
Blindfolded.
Shackled 24/7.
Starved.
Sleep-deprived.
Pumped full of drugs and hallucinogens through puncture marks that still showed on the autopsy.
Beaten methodically...one punch to the gut, one kick to the head at a time...until his organs were mush.
That psychotic Hezbollah “psychiatrist” Aziz al-Abub and his Iranian handlers turned it into an art form: psychological rape designed to shatter the strongest will on earth.
They wanted every name, every asset, every operation.
They got 400 pages of confessions and over 200-300 CIA sources burned.
Many of those patriots were hunted down and executed because this hero broke under torture no human should ever endure.
Other hostages heard him through thin walls...retching, coughing up blood, hallucinating hot cakes and syrup in his delirium.
Hezbollah sent the CIA three videos, each one showing him more destroyed than the last.
A once-iron warrior reduced to a gaunt, drooling shell.
They denied him medical care on purpose.
Pneumonia set in.
His heart finally gave out on June 3, 1985...tortured to death by animals who get hard breaking Americans because their death-cult “religion” tells them it’s holy.
His body?
Dumped like garbage on a Beirut roadside years later, wrapped in bandages and ropes, catheter still in from whatever fresh hell they inflicted at the end.
This is what Iranian-backed Hezbollah does.
This is their psychology: not random cruelty, but calculated soul-murder to humiliate America, prove jihadist savagery beats Western strength, and send a message..."we own you.”
Same playbook as the 1983 Marine barracks bombing that murdered 241 of our brothers.
Same as Colonel William Higgins, hung and mutilated.
Same mullah death cult that’s been at war with us since 1979.
Imad Mughniyeh, the mastermind behind Buckley’s nightmare?
Got vaporized by a CIA drone years later.
Good.
As OPERATION EPIC FURY lights up Iranian nuclear sites and leadership like the Fourth of July from hell, remember Buckley’s broken body and unyielding spirit.
Every Hellfire, every bunker-buster, every dead IRGC commander is payback for this man.
He died so we would never forget.
Those motherfuckers started this war.
We’re finishing it.
Lethal. Precise. Total.
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🚨 JUST IN: Iranians just RIPPED DOWN a statute of the now-deceased Ayatollah Khamenei as celebrations SURGE into the streets of Iran
The more the news of Khamenei’s death spreads, the more people POUR into the streets! 🔥