Word: sassan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advisers, including Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser Colin Powell and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a series of options. Reagan eventually selected a "light" form of retaliation, according to Crowe. It included the targeting for destruction of two oil platforms, the Sassan and the Sirri, that served as bases for Iranian intelligence monitoring in the gulf, and the sinking of one Iranian naval vessel. "We concentrated on targets that are at sea," Crowe said later. "We're stronger...
Three hours later, at midmorning in the gulf, two three-ship naval convoys approached the platforms, 100 miles apart in the southern gulf, and warned their Iranian occupants to evacuate. The Sassan was fired on and then destroyed by U.S. Marines, who helicoptered to the platform and planted explosive charges. The Sirri was bombarded by the guns of the frigates Simpson and Bagley...
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