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The Iranian hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States.
- November 4, 1979-January 20, 1981(444 days)
- Tehran, Iran
- The Iran Hostage Crisis: The Shah and The C.I.A.
- What Was The Iran Hostage Crisis?
- The Canadian Caper
- The Iran Hostage Crisis: Operation Eagle Claw
- The Iran Hostage Crisis: The 1980 Election
The Iran hostage crisis had its origins in a series of events that took place nearly a half-century before it began. The source of tension between Iran and the U.S. stemmed from an increasingly intense conflict over oil. British and American corporations had controlled the bulk of Iran’s petroleum reserves almost since their discovery—a profitable ...
By the 1970s, many Iranians were fed up with the Shah’s government. In protest, they turned to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a radical cleric whose revolutionary Islamist movement seemed to promise a break from the past and a turn toward greater autonomy for the Iranian people. In July 1979, the revolutionaries forced the Shah to disband his gov...
On the same day that students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, six American diplomats evaded capture by hiding in the home of Canadian diplomat John Sheardown. Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark issued Canadian passports to the six escapees to they could be flown to freedom, an event that came to be known as the “Canadian Caper.” A 1981 movie, “E...
President Carter’s efforts to bring an end to the hostage crisis soon became one of his foremost priorities. In April 1980, frustrated with the slow pace of diplomacy (and over the objections of several of his advisers), Carter decided to launch a risky military rescue mission known as Operation Eagle Claw. The operation was supposed to send an eli...
The constant media coverage of the hostage crisis in the U.S. served as a demoralizing backdrop for the 1980 presidential race. President Carter’s inability to resolve the problem made him look like a weak and ineffectual leader. At the same time, his intense focus on bringing the hostages home kept him away from the campaign trail. The Republican ...
Jun 25, 2024 · The Iran hostage crisis was an international crisis (1979–81) in which militants seized 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. It took place after Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1978–79 and poisoned U.S.-Iranian relations for decades.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Iran hostage crisis ended after negotiations held in 1980 and early 1981, with Algerian diplomats acting as intermediaries. Iran’s demands cent...
- On November 17, 1979, about two weeks after the Iran hostage crisis began, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 hostages, all wome...
- Jimmy Carter was U.S. president when the Iran hostage crisis began in 1979, although the final resolution to the crisis—the release of hostages—occ...
Mar 1, 2017 · Early on Nov. 4, 1979, hundreds of Iranian science and engineering students — furious that American President Jimmy Carter had granted asylum to the ailing and recently exiled Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi — descended on the chained gate and 8- to 12-foot-high brick walls of the chancery, the main building of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
- Ron Soodalter
Nov 4, 2014 · In November 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held its occupants hostage, beginning a 444-day standoff that nearly brought the two countries to war.
- Sarah Pruitt
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Jun 16, 2024 · A group of students seized the American Embassy in Tehran and took more than 50 Americans hostage, a 444-day standoff that permanently ruptured diplomatic relations between United States and Iran...
Nov 3, 2019 · Narrated by actor William Shatner, this documentary chronicles the Iran Hostage Crisis from the hostage’s point of view, using interviews with former hostages and footage shot by Iranian ...
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