The ‘October Surprise’ and Argo’s secret

The ‘October Surprise’ and Argo’s secret | Veterans Today

Have we not covered this ?  The hostages were in Iran and had been for a long time. The odds were in favour of them being used as a bargaining chip by the Iranians, who only had to feed and water them.
Carter was in the Shit House but was playing a strong hand in negotiations, with his eye on an Election win. The Ronnie Raygun crew saw the same game plan and they had a bogeyman in Iran as the jailer.Apparently they hot footed over to see the Hiyatolley, in his luxury Paris hotel suite and offered him wonga for him to order his students to hold he hostages a bit longer and then they would have a love in, later
Argo, like all movies, is fiction and showered with jingoism.  It boils down to the fact that America read the runes wrongly and should have got them out of there. So the hostages were disposable pawns all the way round!!