Iran hostage crisis

When

4 Nov 1979

Kind

Event

Coordinates

35.71° N, 51.42° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Iran hostage crisis.

Iran hostage crisis begins: 500 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.

Occupation of Tehran's U.S. embassy (1979–1981)

The Iran hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until the end of the crisis on January 20, 1981. The incident occurred after the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the building in the months following the Iranian Revolution.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Geiselnahme in der US-amerikanischen Botschaft in Teheran”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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