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<blockquote data-quote="Covemastah" data-source="post: 5054127" data-attributes="member: 10933"><p>11/4/1979. Iran. Student followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini send shock waves across America when they <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/iran-hostage-crisis" target="_blank">storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran</a>. The radical Islamic fundamentalists took 90 hostages. The students were enraged that the deposed Shah had been allowed to enter the United States for medical treatment and they threatened to murder hostages if any rescue was attempted. Days later, Iran’s provincial leader resigned, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s fundamentalist revolutionaries, took full control of the country—and the fate of the hostages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Covemastah, post: 5054127, member: 10933"] 11/4/1979. Iran. Student followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini send shock waves across America when they [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/iran-hostage-crisis']storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran[/URL]. The radical Islamic fundamentalists took 90 hostages. The students were enraged that the deposed Shah had been allowed to enter the United States for medical treatment and they threatened to murder hostages if any rescue was attempted. Days later, Iran’s provincial leader resigned, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s fundamentalist revolutionaries, took full control of the country—and the fate of the hostages. [/QUOTE]
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