guys i found a really amazing interview with ex commander of navy, i just summarize important parts:
*he is one of the people who was involved with US embassy raid and he says about the reasons it happened and why it escalated: due to the fact that US granted asylum to the shah and aljazair treaty between US and transition government of mehdi bazargan which resulted in empowering leftist like MEK (MEK was mostly a political party in first days of revolution) we needed to do something so we started to gathering in front of embassy then emotion prevailed to crowd and chain of events including shot fires from embassy guard resulted in capturing it. at the first we did not intend to seize it.
*we didn't imagine that US is gonna sent troops for hostages, the sand storm in tabas was god mercy on us.
*the hostage crisis was not the main reason of iran-iraq war but it influenced it.
*the main reason caused the war was our political level failure to not see the war is coming we though they will not dare to attack. we couldn't influence their view on how a war with us would look like and they miscalculated and attacked. we learned of it and did it against US when they invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. leader himself saved us from invasion almost 30 times.
*during war with Iraq we were running country with only 6 million dollars which half was allocated to war and the other half for fundamental needs of people.
*when us carriers are in PG we are not worry and when we saw them leaving trough strait of Hormuz we informed authorities that US want to invade Iraq and they did it.
*after confrontation with US that resulted in sahand destruction and sinking and sabalan bricking into two pieces, we carried sabalan wreckage to a dry dock and refurbished it and that was the first time that we noticed we can make war ships.
*with the help of a civilian ship builder we made our first ship and armed it with the electronics and missiles acquired of military and civilian industries and engine from a foreign country.
*after that we started the modje project.
*as we received silk worm missiles we gave some of them to MOD for reverse engineering.
*we started producing the c-802 with china after war (1993).
*it was a joint project, we had harpoons those days and our missile knowledge was good and we were learning from them as they were learning from us.
*the reason behind that we processed with light weight submarines were maintenance issue of larger subs.
https://www.mashreghnews.ir/news/96...رک-ایران-و-چین-بود-ناگفته-هایی-از-ساخت-ناوشکن