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26 October
7:58 pm

Iran has been at war with us over the past 47 years since the Iranian hostage-taking.

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Mark Baisley, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (Colorado Sun)

7:58 pm
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Why we checked itThe speaker asserts a 47-year timeline of conflict with Iran starting from the hostage crisis, which can be checked against the date of the Iranian hostage crisis (1979) and the debate date (2026).
What we foundIran has conducted sustained hostile and violent actions against the United States since the 1979 hostage crisis, but the characterization that the two nations have been formally 'at war' for 47 years overstates the legal and diplomatic reality, which multiple authoritative sources describe as proxy conflict, asymmetric warfare, and sustained hostility rather than a declared or formal war.
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