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Over 300 Iranians stormed nan U.S. Embassy successful Tehran, Iran, connected Nov. 4, 1979 — taking 66 Americans hostage.
The embassy had been attacked and occupied successful February of that aforesaid twelvemonth but had been quickly returned to U.S. control.
Rising from nan chaos of nan Iranian Revolution and loyal to Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, nan Iranians held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days (14 were released during captivity).
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In "The Persian Puzzle," bestselling author Kenneth M. Pollack writes, "For nan students who took nan embassy, for nan Iranian revolutionary officials who supported them, and for overmuch of Iran, nan taking of nan embassy was a consequence to nan 1953 coup … To immoderate extent, it was astir preventing a repetition performance."
He besides wrote, "What stands retired … is that a acold much compelling origin for nan Iranians was revenge. It was an enactment of vengeance for nan 1953 coup, designed to humiliate nan United States, to origin symptom to nan American people, and to assuage nan angry and psychological scars that nan Iranian group still bore from nan event."
Jack Carr, No. 1 bestselling author, is simply a erstwhile Navy SEAL Task Unit commandant and sniper pinch deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. He reflects connected nan events of April 24, 1980 — 44 years agone — and says, "What lessons were learned astatine Desert One that style typical operations bid and control, training and readying moreover today? The answers are retired there." (Jack Carr; ADN-Bildarchiv/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
In nan evening hours of April 24, 1980, almost six months into nan ordeal known arsenic nan Iran Hostage Crisis, 8 Navy RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters took disconnected from nan USS Nimitz in nan Gulf of Oman to rendezvous pinch 3 MC-130s carrying Delta Force assaulters from Masirah — an land successful nan Arabian Sea — on pinch different 3 EC-130s carrying fuel.
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The no-go criteria for Operation Eagle Claw was less than six Sea Stallions.
After refueling nan helicopters and transferring nan assaulters, nan C-130s planned to return to Masirah.
The unit would person reconstituted and attempted nan rescue successful nan days up — but that was not to be.
The helos carrying nan Delta battle unit would past alert to Desert Two, wherever Delta would ROD (Remain Over Day).
It would past move to nan embassy successful vehicles acquired by an beforehand unit constituent consisting of 2 members of an Army Special Forces Team retired of Germany: "Fred" — an Air Force E6 who said Farsi — and Special Operations fable Dick Meadows, now a civilian, pinch assistance from CIA assets known arsenic "Bob" and "Mohammed."
The storming of nan U.S. embassy successful Tehran, Iran, connected Nov. 4, 1979, erstwhile Iranian students climbed complete nan wall of nan U.S. embassy and took 52 members of nan unit hostage. (STR/IRNA/AFP via Getty Images)
Less than six helos made it to Desert One and nan ngo was aborted.
The unit would person reconstituted and attempted nan rescue of nan hostages successful nan days up — but that was not to be.
A helo collided pinch 1 of nan EC-130s and ignited an explosion that killed 8 servicemen.
The hostages were released connected Jan. 20, 1981 — minutes aft Ronald Reagan was sworn successful arsenic president of nan United States.
The Carter White House acknowledged nan grounded ngo nan pursuing time and nary different rescues were attempted.
The hostages were separated and moved to aggregate locations crossed Iran.
The Iranians held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. They were not released until Jan. 20, 1981, aft Ronald Reagan was sworn successful arsenic president. (API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
They were released connected Jan. 20, 1981, minutes aft Ronald Reagan was sworn successful arsenic president of nan United States.
That is nan communicative astir group know.
But arsenic is often nan case, location is much to it.
‘Answers are retired there’
After infiltrating into nan Iranian capital, do you cognize really Delta was readying to battle nan target?
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How were they readying to extract? What astir nan beforehand unit team?
The lessons learned from nan calamity astatine Desert One led straight to nan constitution of JSOC – nan Joint Special Operations Command.
How did they get into, and what were they doing, successful Tehran?
How did they get nan vehicles that were to return nan battle unit into nan city?
In this April 26, 1980, photo, an undamaged chopper sits connected nan crushed down nan charred remains of a 2nd U.S. chopper successful nan Iranian godforsaken of Dasht-E-Kavir, April 26, 1980. The site, astir 300 aerial miles from Tehran, was wherever nan U.S. rescue effort for those held hostage successful Tehran was abandoned — and wherever a U.S. chopper and carrier craft collided. (ADN-Bildarchiv/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
What astir nan STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) craft that flew successful and landed astatine Desert One connected March 31 to get ungraded samples?
What lessons were learned astatine Desert One that style typical operations bid and control, training and readying moreover today?
The answers are retired there.
The lessons learned from nan calamity astatine Desert One led straight to nan constitution of JSOC, nan Joint Special Operations Command.
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It's a bid that would spearhead different ngo conscionable complete 30 years removed from Operation Eagle Claw.
This ngo besides progressive subject helicopters crossing borders.
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It was called Operation Neptune Spear.
And it would consequence successful nan decease of Osama bin Laden.
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Jack Carr is nan #1 New York Times bestselling writer of "The Terminal List" and big of nan "Danger Close Podcast." His latest book is "Only nan Dead" (Atria/Emily Bestler Books, May 16, 2023). He is simply a erstwhile Navy SEAL Task Unit commandant and sniper pinch deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Visit him astatine officialjackcarr.com and travel on connected Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook astatine @JackCarrUSA. His upcoming nonfiction work, "Targeted: Beirut - The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing: The Untold True Origin Story of nan War connected Terror," pinch co-author, subject historiographer and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Scott, will beryllium published successful 2024.
