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Iranian Hostage Crisis
November 1979 - January 1981

Ebrahim Asgharzadeh (left)
holds up a picture of a hostage
during the 1979 embassy crisis
in Tehran.
Photograph: GG/AP
From hostage crisis to nuclear deal:
prisoner and captor look back at the Iran-US cold war
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Friday 14 August
2015 20.31 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/
from-1979-iran-hostage-crisis-to-2015-nuclear-deal

The Iranian revolution in early 1979
brought to power a radical Shiite government,
symbolically challenging Saudi Arabia,
the leader of Sunnism,
for leadership of global Islam.
Photograph:
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the
Firefighters’
NYT
AUG. 25, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-islam.html

Time Covers - The 70S
TIME cover 11-26-1979
ill. of Ayatullah Khomeini
and President Jimmy Carter
by Diana Walker.
Date taken: November 26, 1979
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November 1979 -
January 1981
Iranian Hostage Crisis
On November
4, 1979,
Iranian
students stormed the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran, seizing the staff.
They
demanded the extradition
of the deposed Shah of Iran
from the United States,
where he was
receiving cancer treatment.
Iran's revolutionary government,
headed by
the
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
a conservative Muslim leader,
supported
the students,
calling the embassy "a den of spies."
Female and
African-American hostages
were released within the first month,
and one
other hostage was released months later,
due to illness.
The
remaining 52 were held hostage
for 444 days.
They were finally released on January 20, 1981,
the day
Jimmy Carter's successor,
Ronald Reagan, was inaugurated.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/sfeature/sf_hostage.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/19/
686942870/tony-mendez-the-argo-spy-who-rescued-americans-in-iran-
dies-at-78
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/
lens/an-iranian-photographers-unflinching-look-at-his-countrys-revolution.html
https://www.npr.org/2015/12/25/
461005628/u-s-hostages-held-in-iran-for-444-days-finally-get-compensation
https://www.npr.org/2015/10/16/
449238078/canadian-envoy-ken-taylor-who-hid-americans-during-iran-hostage-crisis-dies
https://www.npr.org/2015/10/16/
449090556/canadian-envoy-who-hid-americans-during-iran-hostage-crisis-dies
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/
from-1979-iran-hostage-crisis-to-2015-nuclear-deal
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/us/
james-vaught-who-led-iran-hostage-mission-dies-at-86.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/world/americas/
john-sheardown-canadian-who-sheltered-americans-in-tehran-dies-at-88.html
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/
133086344/Is-It-Time-To-Get-Over-The-Iran-Hostage-Crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/
world/16morefield.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=15912647 - 3 Nov. 2007
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=5373517 - 1 May 2006
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=5166956 - 21 Jan. 2006
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=4144154 - 4 Nov. 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/26/us/
newburgh-ny-former-hostages-home-iran-families-j
oin-them-west-point-president.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/21/newsid_2506000/2506807.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/25/newsid_2503000/2503899.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/4/newsid_3910000/3910627.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/806268.stm
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/05/
world/the-last-us-hostage-from-iran-to-us-a-hint-of-good-will.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/20/
world/text-of-agreement-between-iran-and-the-us-to-resolve-the-hostage-situation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/19/
world/us-and-iran-sign-accord-on-hostages-52-americans-could-be-set-free-today.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/
weekinreview/hostage-crisis-cracked-us-mirror-and-the-world-s.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/11/
world/us-promises-iran-5.5-billion-on-day-hostages-are-freed.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/04/
archives/militants-in-iran-agree-to-give-up-hostage-control-3-are-at-foreign.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/16/
archives/hostages-relatives-propose-iran-talks-in-letter-to-teheran-they.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/26/
archives/4-clergymen-meet-43-hostages-in-iran-new-doubt-on-total-they-look.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/25/
archives/4-clergymen-hold-christmas-services-for-iran-hostages-see-americans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/23/
archives/pope-condemns-iran-over-hostage-issue-addressing-cardinals-pontiff.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/29/
archives/transcript-of-the-presidents-news-conference-on-crisis-over.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/24/
archives/carter-warns-iran-on-hostages-safety-threatens-grave-consequences.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/16/
archives/iran-said-to-pledge-hostage-protection-plo-reported-to-get.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/11/
archives/held-hostage-in-iran60-americans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/05/
archives/teheran-students-seize-us-embassy-
and-hold-hostages-ask-shahs.html
William Hodding Carter III
1935-2023
He became the national face
of the Carter administration
during the Iranian hostage
crisis,
which broke on Nov. 4, 1979,
when militants took over
the United States Embassy in
Tehran
and seized 52 Americans.
Their captivity lasted 444
days
— virtually the remainder of President Carter’s
single
term in office,
a tenure ended by a
frustrated electorate
that chose Ronald Reagan
for
president in 1980.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/
us/hodding-carter-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/
us/hodding-carter-dead.html
1 February 1979
Exiled
Ayatollah Khomeini
returns to Iran
Religious
leader Ayatollah Khomeini
made a
triumphant return to Iran
after 14 years in exile.
Up to five
million people lined the streets
of the nation's capital, Tehran,
to witness the
homecoming
of the Shia Muslim imam.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 78,
was imprisoned by the Shah in 1963
for his
opposition to reforms
and was
expelled the following year,
to Iraq - via Turkey.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_2521000/2521003.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/
newsid_2521000/2521003.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/806268.stm
16 January
1979
Shah of Iran flees into exile
The Shah of
Iran fled the
country
following months of increasingly violent protests
against his regime.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
and his wife, Empress Farah,
left Tehran and
flew to Aswan in Egypt.
The couple's three youngest children
were flown to the United States (...).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/16/newsid_2530000/2530475.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/16/
newsid_2530000/2530475.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/806268.stm
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