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President Joe Biden will announce an end Thursday to U.S. support for a grinding five-year Saudi-led military offensive in Yemen that has deepened human suffering in the Arabian peninsula’s poorest country, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday February 06 2021, @05:21PM
Well, sure, but if you understood the circumstances at the time it makes sense that it went down the way it did. Remember, this wasn't an action of the Iranian state - which was at that point in near anarchy and not capable of doing or commanding much at all. This was direct action by a committee of radical students.
They were not working under state authority but they *were* watching from the beginning for state disapproval, and expected to give up the position very quickly as soon as the state gave the signal. And the situation would have likely been resolved quickly as they expected, but for the Republicans who reached out under the table and told the mullahs "just hold onto them until after the inauguration and we'll give you a better deal." Effectively selling the hostages out, in order to make Carter look bad. It worked, of course. We elected Reagan, and started down the same long slide we're still on today.