The Sandstorm as Divine Victory against the US over a quarter century ago:

Thousands of religious hardliners chanting "Death to America" gathered in Iran's central desert on Tuesday to celebrate a failed US hostage rescue mission 26 years ago.

The anniversary of the US military debacle came amid a mounting war of words with Washington, reported to be mulling the use of force to rein in the Islamic republic's disputed nuclear programme.

Iranian officials used the occasion to tell US leaders that they risked yet more "divine intervention" if they dared to again set foot on Iranian soil.

...many people do not know that episode in US history...it isn't a story oft repeated in the press here in the "so called" free world.

This years anniversary of the Divine Intervention:

http://www.denverpost.com/war/ci_9042287

"Hundreds at the ceremony kneeled in the midday heat, remembering the day 28 years ago when U.S. helicopters on the hostage rescue mission were caught in a vicious sandstorm that led to the collision. Iranian clerical leaders have credited divine intervention for the incident.

"The sandstorm was God's miracle that protected the revolutionary Iran at that time from a foreign attack it was not militarily capable of dealing with," said Abdolrahim Rahimi, a cultural official in Tabas.

He said the gathering thanked God for "nullifying the conspiracy of the U.S. against the newly established Islamic republic." "