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In 1980 the Carter Administration authorized an ill-fated rescue attempt-Operation Eagle Claw-of the hostages who had been languishing in Iran since November 1979.

WI the attempt had succeeded? Or, to put it differently...what if the Israelis had been the ones who carried it out? Based on their experiences at Entebbe, could they have pulled it off, would it have helped Carter win that year's Presidential election, and, despite the outcry on the "Arab street" that would have followed, could it have discredited the Ayatollah in the eyes of the Iranian people?
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