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Jumping from North Carolina to North Iran

by · February 18, 2012 · Posted In: Coalition SOF, SOF History, USASOC
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Doing some research on the CAA (Combat Aviation Advisor) Air Commando teams I came across a very old “documentary” of SOF troops, mostly Army SF, preparing to deploy to Tehran to train the Iranian Special Forces troops there. In the late 50s and early 60s (back when Iran was a staunch ally of the United States), we deployed a MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group) to assist with their SOF and air warfare capabilities. (There were more than one MAAG deployed at the time, most of them in Southeast Asia as the various hot spots in Indochina began to heat up.) In many ways, it’s a precursor to MACV-SOG. MAAG/Iran actually began during WWII, but increased dramatically in size during the Cold War, culminating in a Bilateral Defense Agreement between the US and Iran. MAAG/Iran became ARMISH-MAAG Iran, for United States Army Mission Headquarters Military Assistance Advisory Group Iran. US Air Force and Army special operations advisors remained until the Islamic revolution during the Carter administration.

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More than one of the Iranian military personnel you see in this video were executed, some tortured and executed, by the mullahs during the “revolution”. Others disappeared.



See also US Military Missions to Iran 1943-1978

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Gengiskhan6
Gengiskhan6

Incredible cool article and documentation. I wish the Jstor.org files were public. They look like some of those kind of documents and files which we are able to read thanks to Wikileaks work and all the people of the world sharing their documents work. The video is very explicative. Amazing.

I heard just from readings and people stories how much was crazy the war against Iraq of Iran.

But I heard the cost in freedom and of course life and rights of the revolution on the ruling counterparts much more closely from people I knew at that time. It was like a civil war. Like we all had in all our countries before or later in history ... a story of sufference. The problem are in one word the people who govern us; this might be trivial, but it's not nothing but the lobbies, politicians and religious leaders (especially in U.S. and Iran where religion is very much an important thing for the public opinion). There is the problem.

 

Again, very cool this video where it is shown how videos\cinema was before - just images with commentary under it. So much fun ;) Comparing this video to the one seen as commerical of Seals, CCT, Marines etc ... makes us look from the guys of 40 years ago as aliens. And we are indeed.

Old PH2
Old PH2

I hope the guys in the teams are making good use of the Iranian EX-Pat element in and around Coronado. The Iranians are very nationalistic, being an old cold warrior, I often feel they are like the Russians. Iranians love Iran, but many can't stand the Mullahs. But I'm sure your all aware of that. On top of that almost to a fault they love all things American. Talk about an inside track.

1RadBn
1RadBn

@Old PH2

There are two groups, the pro-Shahs--Beverly Hills has a bunch of these and the recent immigrants who are Shi'as, many in the latter group are Iranian sleepers and is the reason why this Administration is willing to throw Israel (recent executions of nuke scientists) under the bus to stop a war with Iran this year.

Simply put, the Iranians are already here, and we've been too busy with Takfiris that we've forgotten that the Iranians are here, and they are a different type of crazy.