THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Hostage rescue mission ends in disaster – 1980

Via History.com

On April 24, 1980, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued.

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With the Iran Hostage Crisis stretching into its sixth month and all diplomatic appeals to the Iranian government ending in failure, President Jimmy Carter ordered the military mission as a last ditch attempt to save the hostages. During the operation, three of eight helicopters failed, crippling the crucial airborne plans. The mission was then canceled at the staging area in Iran, but during the withdrawal one of the retreating helicopters collided with one of six C-130 transport planes, killing eight soldiers and injuring five. The next day, a somber Jimmy Carter gave a press conference in which he took full responsibility for the tragedy. The hostages were not released for another 270 days.

On November 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to the U.S. for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s political and religious leader, took over the hostage situation and agreed to release non-U.S. captives and female and minority Americans, citing these groups as among the people oppressed by the U.S. government. The remaining 52 captives remained at the mercy of the Ayatollah for the next 14 months.

President Carter was unable to diplomatically resolve the crisis, and the April 1980 hostage attempt ended in disaster. Three months later, the former shah died of cancer in Egypt, but the crisis continued. In November, Carter lost the presidential election to Republican Ronald Reagan, and soon after, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations began between the United States and Iran. On the day of Reagan’s inauguration, January 20, 1981, the United States freed almost $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets, and the 52 hostages were released after 444 days. The next day, Jimmy Carter flew to West Germany to greet the Americans on their way home.

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MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Given what we know about the Deep State, their desire to put Reagan in the White House, and the future release of hostages that was delayed until Reagan could exploit it for his own benefit, one has to wonder if this mission was doomed to failure before it ever began (under Carter).

Anonymous
Anonymous

I think you’re trying to see a conspiracy where there is none.

Carter was just a really crappy President and screwed up everything he did.

TampaRed
TampaRed

carter was not a great potus but any neutral person would have to admit that he also had abysmally bad luck–

lmorris
lmorris

Carter was a dumb person lied about every thing I’m not a fan of Reagan either Our State Dept is and will be dumb and a day date in making up there mind on what to do. They knew things were going bad and did nothing untile to late

Yancey Ward
Yancey Ward

I have always believed disaster this was the final nail in Carter’s political coffin. It basically stood as an object lesson of the degradation of the country that Reagan was specifically running against.

Zarathustra

Yeah but that was bullshit. They didn’t anticipate they’d be caught in a dust storm and with the lack of visibility a C130 tanker rammed a helicopter.

I’ll be the contrarian here. In retrospect, Carter was the best president of my lifetime. He was an anti-interventionist, actually gave a fuck about human rights, deregulated oil and airlines and appointed Volcker to the FED who killed inflation. Yeah he made mistakes, among them was his handling of the Iran crisis…

James the Wanderer

Carter created the DOEducation as a payoff to the teacher’s unions, who voted heavily for him and may have put him over the top. “A more wretched hive of scum and villainy …”
He also created the DOEnergy, which function to waste time and money while preventing useful sources of energy from being found and exploited.
Carter was incompetent in the real world; we are lucky he did not manage to completely crater the country while performing real damage in daily actions.

TampaRed
TampaRed

no idea if this is true but i’ve had no idea to doubt this guy over the years–
a buddy of mine is a retired marine non com who worked in the pentagon when this occurred —
he said that a pilot of one of the destroyed aircraft left a packet of maps & contact info for a huge % of our friendly contacts in the mideast,which the pilots had in case their aircraft had to be ditched–that resulted in a roll up of most of our friendly contacts in the region–

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