Republicans Tried Delaying Release Of Iranian Held US Spies Until After Presidential Election

Republicans Tried Delaying Release Of Iranian Held US Spies Until After Presidential Election http://bit.ly/1ReZdp0

Shades of the 1979-1980 Iran hostage crisis. Clear evidence was later revealed when it was too late to matter.

It showed Reagan/GHW Bush officials arranged a secret deal with Tehran, the so-called October Surprise, delaying the release of 52 Americans held for 444 days until after the 1980 presidential election – to give Reagan a boost over Carter. Iran got weapons for cooperating.

US media propaganda at the time was deplorable. Washington’s Tehran embassy was a notorious den of spies. Carter disgracefully called its personnel “victims of terrorism and anarchy.”

Iranian students involved were calm, orderly, well-behaved responsible youths. Portraying them otherwise to this day (including in the deplorable Hollywood propaganda film Argo), notably against Iran since its 1979 revolution, ousting a US-installed despot.

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