Iranian Hostage Crisis

The Iranian hostage crisis began 4 November 1979 when Iranian students and members of the Revolutionary Guards (Iran's elite forces) violently took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and captured seventy-one U.S. diplomats and support staff. The Iranians retained fifty-two people ...

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