Iran hostage crisis
Time: Saturday Nov 3, 1979
Place: Tehran, Iran
Details: On 4 November 1979 youthful Islamists, calling themselves Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, invaded the US embassy compound in Tehran and seized its staff. Revolutionaries were angry because of how the Shah had fled abroad while the Embassy-based American CIA and British intelligence organized a coup d'état to overthrow his nationalist opponent who was a legitimately elected official. The students held 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days, which played a role in helping to pass the constitution, suppressing moderates, and otherwise radicalising the revolution.
‹ Earlier in historyThe new constitution of the Islamic RepublicOct, 1979 Later in history ›Nawi is the last survivor of Dahomey Nov, 1979
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