Because RR would do the exact same thing as Peanut, rather thanThe hostage crisis still happens, Eagle Claw still fails,
'The Bombing begins in 5 minutes'
as soon as word of the Embassy being overrun is known?
No, not the one you are thinking of, but the earlier occupation
Only four days after the overthrow of the Pahlavi regime, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was attacked. The attack occurred at 10:15 a.m. on February 14, 1979. It was carried out by hundreds of supporters of the communist OPFG who climbed over the walls of the large compound on Takht-e Jamshid Street [now called Taleghani Street]. Here is how Nicholas Cumming-Bruce of the Guardian reported on the incident:
As they [the attackers] dropped into the compound they opened up with everything from G3 rifles to machine guns, spraying the main Embassy building and other offices with bullet. The Embassy's [19] U.S. Marines returned the fire with bird-shot to give official time to destroy secret documents and coding equipments, but were then ordered by the Ambassador [William H. Sullivan] to unload and discard their weapons.
The Embassy staff, about 100 to 150 [down from more than 300 before the Revolution], were taken to the communication room on the first floor, while marines filled the ground floor with teargas. But, this had only a temporary delaying effect. Gunmen eventually broke into the Embassy, forcing many of the staff at gunpoint to lie on the floor. Others ransacked the East Wing, broke up communication equipment and smashed the main switchboard.
One Iranian employee of the Embassy was killed, and U.S. Marine and three other Americans were wounded.
But after only an hour armed men led by the deputy prime minister of the provisional revolutionary government, Dr. Ebrahim Yazdi, arrived at the embassy and convinced the attackers to leave the Embassy.
U.S. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter, III, thanked the provisional government for its efficiency and speed that ended the embassy seizure. Through Iran's embassy in Washington, the Bazargan government relayed a message to the Carter administration, expressing deep regrets for the incident, and promised complete security for the Embassy and its staff.
Sullivan then left Iran. It was obvious that he could no longer be effective as the U.S. Ambassador. The U.S. nominated Walter L. Cutler as its next Ambassador to Iran, but Iran rejected him. Thus, Bruce Laingen, the Charge d'Affaires, became the senior American diplomat in Iran.
Yes, RR would do many of the same things as Carter, but also very different actions, like a different Ambassador in the first place