Iran hostage crisis | Definition, Summary, Causes, Significance, & Facts | Britannica
The Iran hostage crisis was an international crisis (1979–81) in which militants seized 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. It took place after Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1978–79 and poisoned U.S.-...
Truth be told, Carter was helpless for four years.
an embarrassment to all of us in uniform!
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True that. He should have stayed on the peanut farm.
It was because of the Carter administration's meddling in Iran that Trump now has been forced into removing the threat that Carter and the Europeans created by thinking they could install a puppet like the Ayatollah - which massively backfired. All to keep the Soviet Communists out of Iran. The irony is that the Communist Chinese for years have been taking about 90% of Iran's oil while suppling the IRGC with tech and weapons that has ultimately destabilized the entire region for decades. Trump's move on Iran is just as much targeted on the CCP as it is at removing the Iranian threat backed by the CCP and Putin. Truth be told, even Putin is operating on behalf of Xi.
Every president since has kicked that Iranian can down the road. Trump decided, at great political risk, that it was time to deal with the mess the others started. I don't think many can appreciate the courage it took to make such a decision. But, Trump understands the threat, even if others don't. God bless our President.
More to it than what we’ve been told.
From the link below:
Bush personally arranged meetings with Iranian representatives in Paris, using intermediaries from Israel and other intelligence networks. The deal involved delaying the release of the hostages until after the election in exchange for weapons and financial incentives. A key aspect of Bush’s meeting was to ensure the hostages were held past the election, preventing Carter from gaining a political victory. This betrayal of America’s interests was further entangled with the rise of covert arms trades, CIA drug trafficking, and partnerships with extremists and Zionist factions that undermined U.S. democracy.
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/01/01/the-october-surprise-george-h-w-bush-iran-and-the-reagan-revolution/
Yes I have heard this. But what was Carter doing to get them back?
If you’ve been watching Promethean Action, you know that Iran was set up by Britain (MI6) and the CIA. Who was CIA director just before Carter took office? If you said Daddy Bush - you’re correct. Carter never stood a chance. I hope the history books get corrected about him. I didn’t care for all of his policies but he was a much better man than Bush Sr was.
Of course Iran was set up, more than once.
Carter was a puppet too, right? Of the same CIA?? For the same purpose??
OK Carter was a better "man" but his ineffectual policies harmed very many people. Just saying!
I have no knowledge of Carter being a puppet. If you do, please share. Based on what I know, he was outmaneuvered by our CIA - Bush Sr made it so.
If he was not a puppet and held the full reigns as Commander in Chief, why was he so ineffectual? Just asking . . . But then, as you say, he WAS made a puppet of the CIA?? Whether he agreed or not??
Uh, did ya not catch that GHW Bush was working against him via the CIA and his contacts in the ME?
Yes. When has the CIA not meddled?
I believed at the time -- and still believe to this day -- that the Carter administration was consistently sabotaged by the Deep State.
I didn’t know it at the time, just a kid, but I do know it now.
Carter got outmaneuvered. Color revolution and Shah of Iran was deposed right before this happened. Care to guess who he had to deal with? No other president before him had to deal with them. Good article that explains what he did try to do. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-30/jimmy-carter-iran-hostage-crisis-us-presidents-legacy/100220132
Embassies are considered the territory of the nation which chooses to represent itself within the boundaries of another nation. US soil was held for 444 days! Ted Koppel was on the news each night, "AMERICA Held Hostage"! Not so many persons held as hostages, but AMERICA held hostage!
So Carter tried to do something. He failed.
This awesome mission to rescue one trooper, did not fail. Just saying!
I agree, Trump did not fail. But Trump knows exactly who he was dealing with, Carter had to deal with an unknown entity. Remember, Carter didn’t get the letter at the funeral, to me that means that Carter wasn’t part of the DS.
Then when it was all exposed they blamed the dead guy, William Casey.
It still doesn't absolve Carter from participation in creating the problem to begin with. Bush and his cronies simply took advantage of the situation to their benefit. In many ways, they were far worse for the US. May they all rot.
Um, just going to point out a few things on a timeline. Nixon takes the US off of the gold standard, petro dollar gets prominence - now remember what we’ve recently learned about who controls the Strait of Hormuz Nixon gets watergated, Ford becomes president, his new VP - a Rockefeller. 🤔 GHW Bush serves as CIA director for one year, 76-77 appointed by Ford. Shah of Iran flees the country in Jan 1979, and gets replaced by the current regime - a color revolution. 🤔 Wonder who ran that? Guess who just happened to be the pick for VP and pulled strings in Iran? https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/01/01/the-october-surprise-george-h-w-bush-iran-and-the-reagan-revolution/
Absolutely. Bush was all up in that from the beginning. Iran's oil factored into that petrodollar equation and from what I understand, the Shah was pushing back on forces trying to control the situation - from many different directions. Honestly, he was ill equipped to deal with that assault and was forced out. Many Iranians know what was done to their country and are not ignorant about the forces that brought them to their current state of affairs.
You are also correct in that they pulled off a color revolution in Iran and ousted the Shah. Unfortunately, the smear job they did on the Shah many still believe today. It was all part of the takeover. Bush was also involved in the hostage dealings promising arms and money. How much Reagan knew about what skullduggery was going on behind his back is hard to say. I do know that Reagan, unlike many he was surrounded with, was not a member of the Trilateral Commission. I truly think he was kept in the dark about many things if not outright deceived and misled - kind of like Trump was in his first term surrounded by double dealers and snakes.
So when I say that Trump is attempting to take care of a problem that our own government was involved in setting up, and continuing to support, in order to advance their own twisted agendas, that is not an understatement. It is all part of Trump's dismantling the DS.
Agree 100%
Carter was a good man trapped in an evil system. They made him look stupid, but his heart was in the right place. He didn't get an envelope at George's funeral. He was a Christian man and volunteered to help people up until he died.
He would have been a nice neighbor, maybe even Governor. As President he was a failure. He was "too nice" to do his frigging JOB! So people SUFFERED b/c he did not have the right perspective of what "nice" was.
Carter was a piece of shit.
He may have been at one point in his life, but he changed over the years. Some of his attitudes were pretty bizarre and not what I would call Christian. Even a heathen is capable of helping people.
It is interesting to trace the phenomenon of intelligence-capture of presidents, since JFK, or even before, given 1 in 7 USA presidents are assissinated.
Trump is certainly in a unique position, because it seems that he is doing what they want, but at the same time he is playing another game...
Never Forget! as we are rightfully celebrating a phenomenal rescue! But Carter allowed the US to be humiliated!
Sounds like a typical Dem to me.
And Carter gets the credit for a rescue operation that was a complete failure, and national embarrassment to the USA. Helicopters that crashed because they couldn't handle the sand and dust kicked up while landing and takeoff. Typical failed dem operations. They probably designed the operation to fail from the stsrt.
well they sure did not design the operation to succeed~!
OH we tried! right?
" Helicopters that crashed because they couldn't handle the sand and dust kicked up while landing and takeoff."
I didn't believe that nonsense then, and I don't believe it now. The hostage rescue was sabotaged by the Deep State.
Was Carter helpless or complicit? Didn't he get a letter at GHW Bush's funeral too?
No the peanut farmer was clueless. He was looking around for his letter at Bush's funeral confused as to why he didn't get one when everyone around him did.
I sure hope we definitively find out what was in those. They may not have all been the same.
Carter was always a tool. He made no decisions of his own. Simply following orders from his handlers.
quite the contrast!
The hostage situation in Iran was a declaration of war against the United States. President Carter should have responded in kind.
He created the Dept of Education. There were gas lines, you could only get gas on your day. Mortgage interest was like 18%!! And YES he was an embarrassment as trying to be Commander in Chief!!
So HERE WE ARE NOW, finally a President up to dealing with Iran.
It was difficult because the Iranians knew the truth that is was the Carter administration along with Europeans that were responsible for putting the Islamic regime in power to begin with.
Dems don't have the smarts, the courage or the balls to be a world power. Everytime they are in office the world walks all over the US
Because they hate America and what we stand for.
Never forget that Iran dropped the hostages like a hot potato when Reagan took office.
I was in the Pentagon then. HOW we celebrated!
Tell me more, ma’am.
We had the TV on after Reagan was elected and the hostages were freed and we cheered! It was so embarrassing to be in uniform under Carter, sadly. None of us undermined Carter of course, but Reagan was elected and America Held Hostage ended! OH MY how we cheered. For a couple minutes, then went back to our work.
Thanks for sharing.