Posted on 11/04/2005 7:11:04 PM PST by mdittmar
Student followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini send shock waves across America when they storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The radical Islamic fundamentalists took 90 hostages. The students were enraged that the deposed Shah had been allowed to enter the United States for medical treatment and they threatened to murder hostages if any rescue was attempted. Days later, Iran's provincial leader resigned, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran's fundamentalist revolutionaries, took full control of the country--and the fate of the hostages.
Two weeks after the storming of the embassy, the Ayatollah began to release all non-U.S. captives, and all female and minority Americans, citing these groups as among the people oppressed by the United States government. The remaining 52 captives were left at the mercy of the Ayatollah for the next 14 months.
President Jimmy Carter was unable to diplomatically resolve the crisis, and on April 24, 1980, he ordered a disastrous rescue mission in which eight U.S. military personnel were killed and no hostages rescued. Three months later, the former shah died of cancer in Egypt, but the crisis continued. In November 1980, Carter lost the presidential election to Republican Ronald Reagan. Soon after, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations finally began between the United States and Iran.
On January 20, 1981--the day of Reagan's inauguration--the United States freed almost $3 billion in frozen Iranian assets and promised $5 billion more in financial aid. Minutes after Reagan was sworn in, the hostages flew out of Iran on an Algerian airliner, ending their 444-day ordeal. The next day, Jimmy Carter flew to West Germany to greet them on their way home.
The Reagan Revolution began 25 years ago today.
Jimmy Carter doesn't like mean people...that's why the Iranians spanked him around like the weak b*tch that he was. However, I can't explain Jinny's complete lack of knowledge when it came to the economy. Too much Billy Beer?
The first shot in the war...
He's a friggin democrat.
And isn't the newly elected leader in Iran one of the students at that event?
No, he was not one of the students, but he was identified as one of the interrogators by several former hostages
http://rescueattempt.tripod.com
Thank you for that clarification. I seem to remember he was connected with that horrible incident, I just couldn't recall in what capacity.
Remember "The Mushroom." Filthy savages.
And twenty-six years later, American is kind of, sort of, well, maybe, but not really, starting to notice Islamic Jihadists. *Snort*
ain't it the sad truth...
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Ya beat me to the punch again.
my little pet peeve... :)
There's a happier anniversary for me... my dear soon to be wife moved in with me. (We got married as soon as we could; we were young and dumb.)
FYI
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1514678/posts?page=71#60
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) beats President Jimmy "the wabbit killer" Carter (D) by a landslide!!!! Inflation and the crises in Iran and the fact that Jimmy was a clueless idiot with delusions of adequacy caused Jimmy Carter to lose to Ronald Reagan, America’s oldest Pres.-elect.
"...Jimmy was a clueless idiot with delusions of adequacy ..."
I love it!
Ronald Reagan ~ Bump!
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