1979 Iran hostage crisis

The first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six, Richard Marcinko, passed away at the age of 81 on Saturday night.

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” that President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was a national humiliation, which he claimed was worse than the Iran hostage crisis under former President Jimmy Carter.

It’s bad enough that Kabul in 2021 is an acid-trip of bad nostalgia to Saigon in 1975. It would be even worse if Kabul turns into a replay of Tehran in 1979, complete with hostages on videos, ransom demands, agonizing negotiations, and perhaps valiant but doomed rescue attempts.

Democrats spent millions of dollars investigating a nutzo conspiracy theory alleging that Ronald Reagan had committed treason in order to steal the 1980 election from Jimmy Carter.

Tehran — An adviser to Iran’s foreign minister who took part in the 1979 U.S. embassy hostage crisis has died from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported.