Did America invade Iran

Answer 1

The United States never launched a full-scale invasion of Iran, but American troops have been deployed there in the past. Americans have never sought to conquer Iran (also known for centuries as Persia), but have been sent in pursuit of limited objectives.

Americans were sent to the country in 1942 to protect Lend-Lease shipments of wartime equipment to the Soviet Union and to British possessions in the Middle East. The British and Soviets had previously launched a joint invasion of the country to keep the southern supply routes to the Soviets open (Following the German invasion, the Soviets could only be resupplied in the Far East, via Alaska, above the Arctic Circle-the Murmansk Run-or through Iran). The invasion was mostly bloodless, and the Americans arrived later.

Following the overthrow of the pro-US Shah in 1979, a number of American Embassy employees were taken hostage. President Carter authorized a Special Forces operation, Operation Eagle Claw, to rescue the hostages, but technical failures and a helicopter crash doomed the operation. Note that Eagle Claw was less an invasion and more like the bin Laden raid, in that a small number of Special Forces personnel would enter the country in search of one limited objective, and then leave; there was no intent on gaining and holding territory.