The last time the US invaded Iran

[Stalin]

Watch history repeat itself...

Operation Eagle Claw (Persian: عملیات پنجه عقاب) was a failed United States Department of Defense attempt to rescue 53 embassy staff held captive by Revolutionary Iran on 24 April 1980. It was ordered by U.S. president Jimmy Carter after the staff were seized at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran. The operation, one of Delta Force's first, encountered many obstacles and failures and was subsequently aborted. Eight helicopters were sent to the first staging area in Great Salt Desert called Desert One, but only five arrived in operational condition.One had encountered hydraulic problems, another was caught in a sand storm, and the third showed signs of a cracked rotor blade. During the operational planning, it was decided that the mission would be aborted if fewer than six helicopters remained operational upon arrival at the Desert One site, despite only four being absolutely necessary. In a move that is still discussed in military circles, the field commanders advised President Carter to abort the mission, which he did.

As the US forces prepared to withdraw from Desert One, one of the remaining helicopters crashed into a transport aircraft that contained both servicemen and jet fuel. The resulting fire destroyed both aircraft and killed eight servicemen. In the context of the Iranian Revolution, Iran's new leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, stated that the mission had been stopped by an act of God ("agents of God") who had foiled the US mission in order to protect Iran and its new Islamist government. In turn, Carter blamed his loss in the 1980 US presidential election mainly on his failure to secure the release of the hostages. The American hostages were released the day of Ronald Reagan's inauguration.

Operation Eagle Claw - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

comrade stalin
moscow

 

[Phoenix68]

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Arms for Hostages
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"ReRon Reagan's efforts to eradicate Communism spanned the globe, but the insurgent Contras' cause in Nicaragua was particularly dear to him. Battling the Cuban-backed Sandinistas, the Contras were, according to Reagan, "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers."
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In 1985, while Iran and Iraq were at war, Iran made a secret request to buy weapons from the United States. McFarlane sought Reagan's approval, in spite of the embargo against selling arms to Iran. McFarlane explained that the sale of arms would not only improve U.S. relations with Iran, but might in turn lead to improved relations with Lebanon, increasing U.S. influence in the troubled Middle East. ReRon was driven by a different obsession. He had become frustrated at his inability to secure the release of the seven American hostages being held by Iranian terrorists in Lebanon. As president, Reagan felt that "he had the duty to bring those Americans home," and he convinced himself that he was not negotiating with terrorists. While shipping arms to Iran violated the embargo, dealing with terrorists violated ReRon's campaign promise never to do so. Reagan had always been admired for his honesty."

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[Phoenix68]

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ReRon Reagan Plotted To PROLONG Iran Hostage Crisis!!!!
March 19, 2023
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"Millions of Americans watched on split screen televisions in 1981 as ReRon Reagan took the oath of office. As ReRon recited, a jetliner in Iran holding 56 American hostages rolled down a Tehran runway, its wheels lifting just as ReRon finished.
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That precise timing fueled widespread—and reasonable— speculation in major newspapers and elsewhere that Team Reagan had cut some secret deal with the Iranian mullahs to further his chances of becoming president by making Jimmy Carter appear impotent.
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Now, a long-time Republican Party operative has come forward to Peter Baker of The New York Times to spill the beans about the extensive plotting by Reagan allies to force the hostages to endure captivity for months so that voters would deny Carter a second term.
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What the Republican operative, Ben Barnes, revealed to the newspaper shows things were even worse than was widely imagined 42 years ago.
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In 1980, Barnes flew from “one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.”
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Barnes said he was fessing up at long last because he felt a moral obligation to do so before Jimmy Carter, now 98 years old and in hospice care, ran out of time."

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[mark francis]

Watch history repeat itself...

Operation Eagle Claw (Persian: عملیات پنجه عقاب) was a failed United States Department of Defense attempt to rescue 53 embassy staff held captive by Revolutionary Iran on 24 April 1980. It was ordered by U.S. president Jimmy Carter after the staff were seized at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran. The operation, one of Delta Force's first, encountered many obstacles and failures and was subsequently aborted. Eight helicopters were sent to the first staging area in Great Salt Desert called Desert One, but only five arrived in operational condition.One had encountered hydraulic problems, another was caught in a sand storm, and the third showed signs of a cracked rotor blade. During the operational planning, it was decided that the mission would be aborted if fewer than six helicopters remained operational upon arrival at the Desert One site, despite only four being absolutely necessary. In a move that is still discussed in military circles, the field commanders advised President Carter to abort the mission, which he did.

As the US forces prepared to withdraw from Desert One, one of the remaining helicopters crashed into a transport aircraft that contained both servicemen and jet fuel. The resulting fire destroyed both aircraft and killed eight servicemen. In the context of the Iranian Revolution, Iran's new leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, stated that the mission had been stopped by an act of God ("agents of God") who had foiled the US mission in order to protect Iran and its new Islamist government. In turn, Carter blamed his loss in the 1980 US presidential election mainly on his failure to secure the release of the hostages. The American hostages were released the day of Ronald Reagan's inauguration.

Operation Eagle Claw - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

comrade stalin
moscow

It is tragic when military operations fail, like they did under both Clintons, Carter and Biden.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

It is tragic when military operations fail, like they did under both Clintons, Carter and Biden.

Wait and see how big a mess Shitshizpants makes of this.
Iran did not harm any American in America when Carter, Clinton or Biden were president.
It is not a victory to murder school girls in their schools. That was a horrible FAILURE.
Shitshizpants and Pistol Pete the wino in charge of Defense is as stupid as Trump, neither knows the facts.
It was obvious to everyone that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. It has ALWAYS controlled it, and will continue to do so.
The population of Israel is very concentrated and easy for Iran to bomb.
Israel refuses to show the damage that Iran has done to Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.
Iran has 11 times the population of Israel and is scattered about, much harder to eliminate.

Shitshizpants has not prevented his genocidal pal Netanyahu from murdering Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel wants to dominate the entire Middle East, using the money and arms they beg from the US.

Could we save a lot of money by sending Sealteam Six to off Netanyahu? He is too expensive to be our friend. Wouldn't we be doing a big favor to the people of Israel?

 

[mark francis]

Wait and see how big a mess Shitshizpants makes of this.
Iran did not harm any American in America when Carter, Clinton or Biden were president.
It is not a victory to murder school girls in their schools. That was a horrible FAILURE.
Shitshizpants and Pistol Pete the wino in charge of Defense is as stupid as Trump, neither knows the facts.
It was obvious to everyone that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. It has ALWAYS controlled it, and will continue to do so.
The population of Israel is very concentrated and easy for Iran to bomb.
Israel refuses to show the damage that Iran has done to Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.
Iran has 11 times the population of Israel and is scattered about, much harder to eliminate.

Shitshizpants has not prevented his genocidal pal Netanyahu from murdering Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel wants to dominate the entire Middle East, using the money and arms they beg from the US.

Could we save a lot of money by sending Sealteam Six to off Netanyahu? He is too expensive to be our friend. Wouldn't we be doing a big favor to the people of Israel?

Leftist weenies are melting down over Trump's success in Iran.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

Leftist weenies are melting down over Trump's success in Iran.

This is not any sort of success. Iran controls the Straits and the gas and oil are not flowing and will not until Iran says so.
Iran was prepared for this, Shitshizpants was not.
He could have filled the oil reserves, but did not.
He could have mandated the production of cheap drones, but he did not.

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[mark francis]

This is not any sort of success. Iran controls the Straits and the gas and oil are not flowing and will not until Iran says so.
Iran was prepared for this, Shitshizpants was not.
He could have filled the oil reserves, but did not.
He could have mandated the production of cheap drones, but he did not.

l

Arabs lied to their own people during the 1967 6 days war because the truth was more than they could take.

Allegations of Egyptian atrocities against fellow Egyptians​

Following the war little remained of Egypt's seven divisions deployed in Sinai. Thousands of Egyptian soldiers became stragglers and tried desperately to make their way westward toward the Suez Canal zone. Israel did not have the capacity to take them all prisoner and where possible, facilitated their movement toward the Canal where they would attempt to swim across. "However, one group (of Egyptian stragglers), as they were in mid-stream, were mown down by their own forces on the far side of the Canal with machine-guns."
It has been suggested that Nasser did not want Egypt to learn of the true extent of his defeat and thus ordered the killing of survivors who tried to escape.
Other Egyptian survivors were transferred to Egypt at Qantara and once on the Egyptian side of the Canal, were herded into compounds where they were surrounded by barbed wire.
Winston Churchill, the grandson of the famed former British Prime Minister, notes that Egyptian soldiers who succeeded in making their way back to Egypt, never made it home and instead were kept in cantonments, "to prevent the spread of despondency among the civil population."

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[Gabriel_Bell]

So what? We need to attack Iran now because of the Egyptian Army's actions long ago?
Egyptians are not Iranians. Egyptians are Sunni Muslim and Arabs. Iranians are Shiites and not Arabs.

Ignoramus!

 

[mark francis]

So what? We need to attack Iran now because of the Egyptian Army's actions long ago?
Egyptians are not Iranians. Egyptians are Sunni Muslim and Arabs. Iranians are Shiites and not Arabs.

Ignoramus!

Egyptian enemies of God and Jews lie just as much as Iranian enemies of God and Jews, regardless of what decade applies.