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Never Forget! Carter was helpless "while militants in Iran seized 66 American citizens at the U.S. embassy in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year." (www.britannica.com)
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Iran hostage crisis | Definition, Summary, Causes, Significance, & Facts | Britannica
The Iran hostage crisis was an international crisis (1979–81) in which militants seized 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. It took place after Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1978–79 and poisoned U.S.-...
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