[bjs1779]

Carter okayed an ill-fated attempt to rescue the hostages with military assets. Some of the planes crashed in a desert staging area when helicopters kicked up sand and the landing planes could not properly identify the landing zone. Because of the accidents, the rescue attempt was canceled. Not a John Wayne or Ronald Reagan type of military action, but a military action by a pacifist President nonetheless.

Without a lengthly response, what did Iran do the when Reagan was sworn in as president on the first day?

[justa-hairyape]

The Mullahs blinked, eventually. But then the Iranian Mullahs gained the upper hand in Lebanon through their Hezbollah proxies.