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It fortunately didn t happen.
Here s What You Need to Know: Retaliatory raids never got past the planning stage.
The last time U.S. troops engaged in direct combat with Iran’s own regular forces was in April 1988, when U.S. naval forces struck Iranian ships and sea bases in retaliation for Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf.
A decade later the United States came close to attacking Iran again, this time in retaliation for a 1996 terrorist bombing that killed more than a dozen Americans. But then-president Bill Clinton instead chose to pursue a diplomatic rapprochement.
The near-conflict of the 1990s could hold lessons for present-day leaders.