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Ruhollah Khomeini

Iran hostage crisis

Saturday Nov 3, 1979
Tehran, Iran

On 4 November, a group of Iranian college students calling themselves the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, took control of the American Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 embassy staff hostage for 444 days – an event known as the Iran hostage crisis.


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