6/25/1996

On June 25, 1996, “Iran and its ally, the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, had orchestrated the [Khobar Towers] attack [in Saudi Arabia] using local Shia to conduct the actual operation. Tehran [Iran] ordered it, Lebanon’s Hezbollah provided the bombmaker, and Saudi Hezbollah the terrorists.”

 – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda, Pages 51-52