November 4, 1979

Islamic students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran , Iran , and took 66 American diplomats hostage. Thirteen were soon released, but over 50 remaining were held hostage. President Jimmy Carter applied economic pressure by halting Iranian oil imports and freezing Iranian assets in the United States . On April 24,1980, the Carter administration attempted a rescue mission that failed, when three of the mission's eight helicopters were damaged in a sandstorm. After Ronald Reagan's election in November, successful negotiations began, and Iran released the remaining hostages shortly after his inauguration on January 20, 1981. 1,2,9 (Reagan was considered crazy and prone to use nuclear weapons by the Islamic world.......the Muslims wanted no part of a confrontation with such an American president. Today of course, the United States is viewed as a paper tiger, more than willing to submit to the rule of the Calipha.)

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, over and over and over and over and over and.............................


Olmert: Iran can be stopped without resorting to violence

Greer Fay Cashman, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 6, 2007
There is no need for violent action to stop Iran from moving forward with its nuclear program, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Tuesday night.

"If the international community joins forces and applies the necessary restrictive measures on the economy of Iran, it will force Iran to reconsider its position," said Olmert. If Europe, the US, China and Russia join forces, he continued, "they can create such damage to the Iranian economy that it will force them to reconsider."

Olmert made it clear that he believes that the Iranian threat "is not as close as the Iranians want us to think. They are not as close to the threshold as they pretend to be. There is still time to fight in a comprehensive responsible manner."

Blair says no military action on Iran