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WEBThe Iran hostage crisis (Persian: بحران گروگانگیری سفارت آمریکا) was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States.
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WEBJun 1, 2010 · On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages.
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WEBSep 13, 2024 · The Iran hostage crisis was an international crisis that began in November 1979 when militants seized 66 U.S. citizens in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. The crisis took place in the wake of Iranian Revolution (1978–79).
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WEBJan 20, 2024 · When Iranians took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979, they held 52 Americans hostage for over 444 days. On this day in 1981, the hostage crisis ended, but that wasn't the end of the story -...
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WEBMay 26, 2020 · The Iran hostage crisis (November 4, 1979 – January 20, 1981) was a tense diplomatic standoff between the governments of the United States and Iran in which Iranian militants held 52 American citizens hostage in the U.S. Embassy in …
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WEBIran hostage crisis, (1979–81) Political crisis involving Iran’s seizure of U.S. citizens in Tehrān. Anti-American sentiment in Iran—fueled in part by close ties between the U.S. and Iran’s unpopular leader Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi—peaked when the shah fled during the Iranian Revolution (1978–79). When he entered the U.S. for ...
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WEBNov 4, 2014 · The Iran hostage crisis would bring the United States to a state of near war with Iran and torpedo Carter’s presidency. After a short time, the students released 13 of the 66 hostages, who were...
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WEBSep 13, 2024 · The Iran hostage crisis was a severe blow to U.S. morale and prestige, coming as it did in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. In addition to placing a roadblock in the path of U.S.-Iranian relations, it was also widely believed to have contributed to Carter’s defeat by Reagan in the 1980 presidential election.
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WEBJan 9, 2017 · The Iran Hostage Crisis was a major international crisis caused by the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and its employees by revolutionary Iranian students, who then held the Embassy employees as hostages, in direct violation of international law.
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WEBOn November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans, ranging from the Chargé d’Affaires to the most junior members of the staff, as hostages. The Iranians held the American diplomats hostage for 444 days.