Iranian aggressors still target American troops in Iraq

On October 1 of this year, Army Specialist Alexander Missildine was killedby a highly lethal roadside bomb known as an explosively formed penetrator (EFP) in the  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 Congress to consider the memory of Army Specialist Missildine, and the other American service memberswho have lost their lives or have been severely injured because of EFPs, when developing a legislative strategy to counter Iran’s non-nuclear aggression in the region.  

Going further, American businesses must never lose sight of the lives of our heroes lost at the hands of weapons deployed by groups tied to the IRGC and Tehran — doing business with the Iranian regime only enables the slaughtering of our men and women in uniform.