<h2 class="wp-block-heading">by Robert Riggs</h2> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://www.truecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Game-of-Drones-By-Robert-Riggs-Reporter.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1024" height="1024" src="https://www.truecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Game-of-Drones-By-Robert-Riggs-Reporter-1024x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-3296" style="width:486px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.truecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Game-of-Drones-By-Robert-Riggs-Reporter-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://www.truecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Game-of-Drones-By-Robert-Riggs-Reporter-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.truecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Game-of-Drones-By-Robert-Riggs-Reporter-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.truecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Game-of-Drones-By-Robert-Riggs-Reporter-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.truecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Game-of-Drones-By-Robert-Riggs-Reporter-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.truecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Game-of-Drones-By-Robert-Riggs-Reporter.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure> </div> <p>This episode is about the standoff with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and the threat of its drone attack to the global economy.</p> <p>And I know what some of you may be wondering.</p> <p>What does Iran have to do with the <a href="https://www.truecrimereporter.com/general/irans-drone-war-at-the-worlds-oil-chokepoint/">True Crime Reporter®</a> podcast?</p> <p>My answer is simple.</p> <p>For more than forty years, the Iranian regime has been linked to the killing of Americans, sometimes directly, sometimes through proxies, and often with little lasting consequence.</p> <p>This is not an abstract foreign policy debate for me.</p> <p>During my thirty years in television news, I saw the human cost of that shadow war up close.&#160;</p> <p>I covered the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, where 241 American service members were killed in 1983.&#160;</p> <p>Federal court records have described Hezbollah as the perpetrator and Iran as a source of political, financial, and operational support tied to the attack.</p> <p>I was an embedded reporter during the invasion of Iraq, where American troops faced roadside bombs and armor-piercing explosives supplied or supported by Iranian networks.</p> <p>In more than a dozen attacks, Iran has killed Americans without putting Iranian soldiers in the fight.&#160;</p> <p>It used terror groups, militias, mines, missiles, and now drones.&#160;</p> <p>When a regime uses proxies to kill Americans and destabilize the world, that is not merely geopolitics. 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