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    The Iran hostage crisis (Persian: تسخیر سفارت آمریکا) was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States. Fifty-three American diplomats and...
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    The Iran hostage crisis negotiations were negotiations in 1980 and 1981 between the United States Government and the Iranian Government to end the Iranian...
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    of the Iran hostage crisis (1979–1981), starting from the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's leaving of Iran and ending at the return of all hostages to the...
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  • The Lebanon hostage crisis was the kidnapping in Lebanon of 104 foreign hostages between 1982 and 1992, when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height....
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  • November 1979, a number of U.S. hostages were captured in Iran during the Iranian Revolution. The Iran hostage crisis continued into 1980; as the November...
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    Iran Hostage Crisis". GQ. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2020. Sahimi, Muhammad (3 November 2009). "The Hostage Crisis...
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    syndrome. The Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981) - Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444...
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    and occupied the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran and took the embassy staff hostage initiating the Iran hostage crisis. Claude V. Ricketts was immediately tasked...
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    addition to hostages with only Israeli citizenship, almost half of the hostages are foreign nationals or have multiple citizenships. Some hostages were Negev...
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  • Algiers Accords (category Iran hostage crisis)
    States and Iran to resolve the Iran hostage crisis, brokered by the Algerian government and signed in Algiers on January 19, 1981. The crisis began from...
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  • Kenneth D. Taylor (category Iran hostage crisis)
    Iran. With the cooperation of the American Central Intelligence Agency, Taylor helped six Americans escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis by...
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  • Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line (category Iran hostage crisis)
    execution. The occupation triggered the Iran hostage crisis where 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days. The organization was a...
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    used by the U.S. since the Iran hostage crisis of 1979. Since then, the United States government has been represented in Iran by the United States Interests...
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    campaign was aided by Democratic dissatisfaction with Carter, the Iran hostage crisis, and a worsening economy marred by stagflation. Carter attacked Reagan...
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  • Response to the Iran Hostage Crisis". January 19, 2021. Timeline of the Iranian hostage crisis Timeline of the Iranian hostage crisis "Remembering Super Bowl...
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    overthrow of the Shah of Iran) seized the US Embassy in Tehran and held 63 Americans hostage. Thus began the Iran hostage crisis. Coral Sea relieved Midway...
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    executive-produced the feature documentary film Our Man in Tehran about the Iran Hostage Crisis. It premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival a year...
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  • This is a list of notable hostage crises by date. "Hostages Held by Hamas: The Names of Those Abducted From Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved 2023-12-07. "Six...
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    department negotiated the release of 52 Americans, thus concluding the Iran hostage crisis. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Carter in 1981...
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    First inauguration of Ronald Reagan (category Iran hostage crisis)
    States presidential election Ronald Reagan 1980 presidential campaign Iran hostage crisis "49TH INAUGURAL CEREMONIES". United States Senate. Retrieved June...
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  • were marked by several major crises, including the 1979 oil crisis, the Iran hostage crisis, and the subsequent failed Operation Eagle Claw. These crises...
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  • Richard Queen (category Iran hostage crisis)
    known as the Iran hostage crisis. Richard Queen began to physically deteriorate fairly early during his confinement. While the hostage takers were aware...
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    tenure were marked by several additional major crises, including the Iran hostage crisis and economic malaise. Ted Kennedy, a prominent liberal Democrat who...
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  • Argo (2012 film) (category Iran hostage crisis)
    S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran, under the guise of filming a science-fiction film during the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis. The film, which also has Bryan...
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    Kensington, London. The gunmen, Iranian Arabs campaigning for sovereignty of Khuzestan Province, took 26 people hostage, including embassy staff, several...
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    Department's Special Operations Group set up to free the American hostages seized by Iranian militants at the United States Embassy in Tehran. In 1981, Raphel...
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  • Elements that played a part in both the crisis and its end were the Iran hostage crisis, the invasion of Iran by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and the presidency...
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    Court of Justice by the United States of America against Iran in response to the Iran hostage crisis, where United States diplomatic offices and personnel...
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  • explores events of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis, examining other dimensions of the crisis, like the U.S. role in the...
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    Ruhollah Khomeini (category Iran hostage crisis)
    culture", where he was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis, his fatwa calling for the murder of British Indian...
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