Prayer in front of the US embassy where 54 hostages are held by Islamist students on November 7 1979 in Tehran Iran.

Names of iranian hostages. Kenneth Douglas Taylor OC October 5 1934 October 15 2015 was a Canadian diplomat educator and businessman best known for his role in the 1979 covert operation called the Canadian Caper when he was the Canadian ambassador to IranWith the cooperation of the American Central Intelligence Agency Taylor helped six Americans escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis by procuring. Kathryn Kate Koob 72 was one of two women among those held captive in Iran for 444 days and she is the only female hostage still living. Man Haron Monis an Iranian-born cleric on bail for a string of violent offences held a total of 18 people hostage in the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in central Sydney.

Embassy in Tehran taking more than 60 American hostages. 30 rows Name Detained Released Days in detention Reason for detention Notes Ref. INCREDIBLE never-before-seen pictures show hostages running through smoke at the Iranian Embassy 40 years after the siege.

Tom MacDonald was a key member of the elite special forces team drafted in. Two hostages - cafe manager Tori Johnson 34 and barrister Katrina Dawson 38 - were killed as was the gunman himself. 4 1979 when a group of Iranian militants scaled a wall at the US.

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In retaliation for Jimmy Carter granting Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi asylum in the United States an angry mob of Iranian militants supporters of the new leader Ayatollah Khomeini storm the US. The remains of a burned-out US. The Iran hostages who dealt with physical and psychological torture including instances of solitary confinement and mock execution have also had to fight for restitution since they were.

Iran hostage crisis international crisis 197981 in which militants seized 66 Americans at the US. Jason Poblete the lawyer that helped free the Lebanese businessman Nizar Zakka after four years in an Iranian jail also argues governments should put hostage. The Ordeal of Iran Hostages Captivity.