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Operation Eagle Claw, historic US military failure in Iran’s Tabas Desert 

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April 24 marks the day US military launched “Operation Eagle Claw” in an attempt to release its 52 embassy staff held in Tehran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, the operation failed as a sandstorm crippled the US forces and their helicopters.


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