🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷Historical US Failures Against Iran: How America Keeps Losing to the "Lesser" Enemy

For decades, Washington has acted as if its military power is unstoppable. However, several US administrations learned the hard way that Iran doesn’t fight back according to plan.

🔸Operation Eagle Claw (1980) was meant to rescue hostages. Instead, eight helicopters met mechanical failure in a sandstorm, leading to a fiery collision at Desert One that killed eight American servicemen. Iran displayed the wreckage for decades, and the debacle birthed USSOCOM.

🔸The RQ-170 Sentinel (2011) was the CIA's stealth crown jewel, until Iran captured it. Tehran claimed they spoofed its GPS and landed it nearly intact. The technology gap suddenly vanished; Iran reverse-engineered it into the Shahed 171 now striking American allies.

🔸Naval Humiliation (2016) saw two US patrol boats drift into Iranian waters near Farsi Island. Ten American sailors were detained, filmed on their knees with hands on heads. The footage went viral before their release.

🔸The Global Hawk (2019) was a $220 million stealth drone flying at 40,000 feet, 170 kilometers away. Iran's indigenous Khordad 3rd system tracked it, targeted it, and turned it into falling scrap. The Pentagon claimed international airspace; the wreckage suggested otherwise.

🔸Operation Midnight Hammer (2025) unleashed America's most powerful bunker busters, 14 MOPs, on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The Pentagon declared "severe damage." But satellite revealed centrifuges still spinning, stocks possibly moved. Damaged, not destroyed and still working.

None of this operations achieved their stated objectives. The pattern spans decades and administrations, from Carter's desert debacle to Trump's ineffective strikes.

Now, Washington is preparing for another operation against Iran, but the question is if this will become a new chapter in a growing archive of overreach, miscalculation, and failure.

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