The story above was not "submitted by Military Experts and even the USAF",
however: that version was first published in the AFM's special issue about
F-4 Phantoms, in 1999, by an Iranian author. Then it was copy-pasted by the
website of the IIAF-Association, iiaf.net, where it can still be found in
this form.

Specific US documents released in accordance to FOIA procedure, reveal quite
different circumstances and results of this mission. For example, there was
a quid pro quo agreement with the Israelis: the IRIAF supplied recce photos
of Tuwaitha to IDF/AF, and the IDF/AF supplied recce photos of H-3.

IRIAF pilots who flew this mission cite different details too. For example,
a single F-4 was damaged during attack. It landed safely in Syria. An IRIAF
C-130 with repair team arrived there in the late afternoon of the same day,
and then both the Phantom and the Hercules returned to Iran - via Turkey.