Tehran Mission

By R.R. Wright

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419655132
• ISBN13: 9781419655135
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Very Good Read

I have just finished reading "Tehran Mission"and have been very impressed with the book. Very interesting. Very well written and particularly well documented. This is a well crafted look inside military covert operations involving an episode in American History that we are all somewhat familiar with. The book fills in the blanks in a very exciting story line that keeps the pages turning. Well done. Col. R. Thomas Roe, USAF Ret. Author of The Gaelic Letters

We Stood Alone for the Shah and Shahbanu

In 1978 and 1979 Special Agents from the USAF Office of Special Investigations (OSI) were sent into Iran to bolster the OSI offices at Tehran's Gulf District Compound. We had protected Crown Prince Reza in the US and now we were being called in to collect and analyze terrorist information from radicals working with hostile Iranian forces to overthrow the Shah. This book tells the story of what many of us wanted to happen. Numerous pro Shah military units and SAVAK had left Iran and to use them in a role to rescue our hostages and hit at the Ayatollahs forces appeared natural to us. Contacts with the revolutionary element suggested ANY show of force by the US military and tough stand by our President would have immediately caused the release of the US Embassy hostages. What happened was unbelievable! A total lack of a US follow up actually meant to the hostage takers that the US did not value the hostages. The Carter camp would not force the issue. To those who were in the first Embassy take over and the second longer take over would have thought the US might have utilized the numbers of pro US and pro Shah forces to act in our behalf. They were all US trained, they hated the Ayatollah, and they loved the US. This book shows what might have happened if we had utilized our allied forces correctly.

Non-stop action

Anyone who enjoys non-stop action with extensive details on weaponry and intelligence terminology will enjoy this book. The Glossary is worth the price of the book!

It SHOULD have happened like this!

If you're into Special Forces, this book is for you. I had no idea so much went into a joint forces operation! Wright's knowledge and attention to detail create an amazing picture of a complex mission. It's just too bad the real mission didn't go as well.

About the Book

Tehran Mission is an alternate history novel based on the failed 1980 Iran Hostage mission. The facts: The 1980 attempt to rescue the Iran embassy hostages failed due to circumstances beyond the control of the brave men of Operation Eagle Claw. But considering the meticulous planning and the competence of Delta Force and its supporting elements, it should have! In this alternate history novel it does! Captain "Bull" St. Stephen and his Special Forces A-team are infiltrated into Tehran to serve as an in-country intelligence asset. In a series of perilous incidents, they discover that militant students and mujahedin are planning another assault on the embassy and to take its occupants hostage. Their intent is an exchange for the deposed Shah who has sought refuge in the U.S. Alerted to that possibility, the Joint Chiefs of Staff order Delta and a joint task force - JTF7- to prepare for Operation Scimitar: a coordinated mission to rescue the hostages should that come about. A suspenseful tale of covert operations, deception and peril, the story rivets the reader's attention in a fast moving novel.