What is Operation Eagle Claw?
[[File:Eagle Claw wrecks at Desert One April 1980.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The wreckage of the Eagle Claw]] '''Operation Eagle Claw''', known as '''Operation Tabas''' ({{lang-fa|عملیات طبس}}) in Iran,<ref>[http://www2.afsoc.af.mil/library/afsocheritage/index.asp AFSOC.af.mil ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091116084305/http://www2.afsoc.af.mil/library/afsocheritage/index.asp |date=16 November 2009 }}</ref> was a [[United States Armed Forces]] [[military operation|operation]] ordered by [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] to try to end the [[Iran hostage crisis]] by rescuing 52 embassy staff held captive at the [[Embassy of the United States, Tehran]] on 24 April 1980. Its failure damaged U.S. prestige worldwide. Carter himself blamed his loss in the [[United States presidential election, 1980|1980 U.S. presidential election]] mainly on his failure to win the release of the hostages.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jimmy Carter: Iran hostage rescue should have worked |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |date=17 September 2010 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-17-iran-hostages-jimmy-carter_N.htm}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1980 in the United States]] [[Category:1980s in Iran]] [[Category:1980 deaths]] [[Category:Aviation deaths]] [[Category:Jimmy Carter]] {{stub}}