Imam Khomeini dismissed threats by then US president Jimmy Carter

Extracted from the late Haj Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, impressions of Imam's biography, volume 4, page 208

Operation Eagle Claw, declawed by Tabas sand

Iran has marked the anniversary of the failed 1980 US military operation in the central Iranian desert region of Tabas known as Operation Eagle Claw.

Divine hidden assistance triggered US defeat in Tabas desert, Imam Khomeini highlighted

April 25, 1980 is reminiscent of the aggressive attack of the special combat forces of the American regime on the territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran and their illegal entry into Tabas Desert. Imam Khomeini said that American failure and defeat was originated from hidden assistance from God the Almighty for the faithful Iranian people.

Imam Khomeini has been considered great hero

Jimmy Carter, former US president

History of 13th Aban occasion and the National Day of fighting global arrogance

Aban 13 (Nov. 4) marks three important events: the anniversary of the takeover of the former US embassy in Tehran by Muslim students following Imam Khomeini's path (1979), the anniversary of the exile of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini by Shah (1964), and the Student Day (marking the day in 1978 on which several students taking part in a protest rally against the Shah were martyred.)

How United States did suffer defeat in Tabas Desert in 1980?

Iran advises US to learn lessons from humiliating defeat in Tabas Desert in 1980

Iran has reminded the United States of its humiliating defeat in Operation Eagle Claw in Tabas Desert in 1980, advising Washington to learn lessons from its historic fiasco and more than four decades of hostility toward the resistant Iranian nation.

Leader says Iran’s progress, prosperity unbearable for arrogant powers

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says arrogant powers are disgruntled by Iran’s scientific advances as tremendous progress being achieved by the Islamic Republic is consigning liberal democracy propagated by the West to history.