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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
G
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
Life Images
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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
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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