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26 October
7:58 pm

Iran has killed Americans and kidnapped 133 Americans, and to our knowledge, nine assassination attempts have been thwarted.

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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 itSpecific figures — 133 kidnapped Americans and 9 thwarted assassination attempts attributed to Iran — are concrete and verifiable claims that could mislead if inaccurate.
What we foundThe figures come from a tracker kept by JINSA, a pro-defense advocacy group, which counts 133 Americans kidnapped or taken hostage by Iran and Iran-backed groups such as Hezbollah; a separate tracker by the Foley Foundation counts 94 Americans detained by Iran itself. No government source gives a count of nine thwarted assassination plots.
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