A shadow from 1980 has returned to the diplomatic stage as friction grows between Washington and Tehran. Iran has invoked the failed US rescue mission known as Operation Eagle Claw to caution against ...

Forty-six years ago this month, America learned a brutal lesson in the Iranian desert. In April 1980, Operation Eagle Claw, a Delta Force mission to rescue American hostages in Tehran, ended in ...

Noble objectives of the mission notwithstanding, Eagle Claw, in the words of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 founding commander Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko, “got too g*ddamn complicated,” a violation of the ...

Why did Operation Eagle Claw end in tragedy? The U.S. tried to free its citizens from Iran in 1980, but the mission collapsed in disaster. Here’s what really happened. Major wine company will lay off ...

Pezeshkian referred to April 25—the anniversary of the failed U.S. military operation in the Tabas desert—as a moment that demonstrated what he described as “the supremacy of divine will over the ...