Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rescue team was "highly trained" and had undergone "repeated rehearsal." He insisted that the operation had "an excellent chance of success." Carter emphasized that the rescue was "a humanitarian mission. It was not undertaken with any feeling of hostility toward Iran or its people. It has caused no Iranian casualties...
...aftermath of the mission that had come to a bloody and unsuccessful end in an Iranian desert left conflicting feelings high in the ranks of the Administration that planned it. Some State Department officials felt that the whole venture had been badly timed?that it should have been either launched months ago, or postponed until later in the spring, after the U.S. had determined the success of the sanctions imposed by its allies. Said Richard Helms, former CIA chief and onetime Ambassador to Iran: "The timing is peculiar. You spend so much effort getting your allies to take some other...
...take such action now? Carter said he had decided that "the Iranian authorities could not or would not resolve this crisis on their own initiative." He noted "the steady unraveling of authority in Iran and the mounting dangers that were posed to the safety of the hostages." Indeed, factional strife between leftist students who had occupied universities in Iran and Muslim authorities seeking to remove them had broken into violent rioting and bloodshed on a dozen campuses. When it finally subsided last week, the clashes with clubs, cleavers and daggers had left 60 students dead and nearly 2,000 wounded...
...transport planes carried about 90 commandos in camouflage garb and another 90 crew members. Following an undisclosed route, the small air fleet droned along as low as 150 ft. to foil Iranian radar as it approached its first staging site in the desert near the isolated village of Posht-e Badam. Other planes are reported to have helped by jamming Iranian detection systems...
...many ironies of the entire mission was the fact that the C-130s were heading for a remote spot in the desert that the Iranians had feared might some day be used by U.S. forces. Indeed, they even had a map of the spot. It was discovered in the papers of Mahmoud Jaafarian, a pro-Shah counterinsurgency strategist who was executed after the revolution a year ago. Jaafarian was actually trying to burn the map when he was seized by the revolutionaries. Jaafarian told his captors that the staging site had been secretly built by the CIA, with the Shah...