Of course the attempt to rescue the 52 Americans came “after the fact”. First they had to be taken hostage.

I think the chronological order had something to do with the series of events that involved the taking of the American Embassy personal in Iran. On September of 1979 the Shah of Iran came to the United States for medical treatment. On Nov. 4, 1979, the American Embassy was taken over and the employees were made hostages. Relations with Iran had not deteriorated to the point that it was thought that Americans should evacuate Iran.

With an Islamic revolutionary government in power we had no concept that our embassy would be taken over.

>>Carter attempted a rescue of the American embassy staff taken hostage in Iran. However of the eight helicopters involved three failed before reaching Tehran, and the mission failed. The helicopters could not lift the payload required so someone had the filters removed from the engines to increase their ability to lift. Sand got into the engines causing the failure of three of the helicopters caused by a sandstorm.
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>Wasn't this attempt after the fact?
>Why was he able to move Shah and his family out of Iran and not the Americans before the take over of the embassy?
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>>Carter halted oil imports from Iran and froze Iranian assets in the United States. Negotiations began to free the hostages and agreement was reached on Jan. 20, 1981, the day of President Reagan's inauguration. On that day the United States released most of the Iranian assets and the hostages were freed. Also, it was agreed that American hostages could not exercise their right to sue Iran for its actions against them.
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>>Carter appointed “good ol boys” whom he felt were friends and supporters to his administration. If you were not from Georgia, you could forget being a part of the Administration. The vast majority of his appointees were incompetent. I recall interest rates for a new car were 19.8%.
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>>Burt Lance was budget director and resigned amid allegations of wrongdoing. Incompetence was the norm of the Carter administration. After being in office for three years and nine months Carter stated, “You know, you cannot trust the Soviets. They are not a truthful people”!
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>>>>>>>Jimmy Carter who turned out to be the biggest idiot President in our history.
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>>>>>>I think it could be argued that he is one of the best former Presidents. Being young, he has had a long retirement to do things.
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>>>>>Former yes.
>>>>>But I think he does what he does so people will forget all the screw-ups during when his presidency.
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>>>>What were his screw-ups during his presidency? Specifically.
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>>>Perhaps screw-up is a bit over the top.
>>>But I think he can be considered the most weakest president ever. Just read how he handled Iran and how that whole hostage thing came about. Research how he handled the economy and what he did about the energy crisis of the late 70's. In lot of cases he did nothing. He certainly could have at least evacuted the US embassy at the first sign of trouble. Some how he was able to get the Shah out to get him some treatment for his cancer but not the Anerican embassy staff. He did nothing.
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>>>Heck, even his own staff members couldn't/wouldn't support him in the 1980 election against Ronald Reagan.