The Iran hostage crisis was an international crisis 197981 in which militants in Iran seized 66 American citizens at the US.

Names of iranian hostages 1979. On November 4 1979 a group of Iranian students stormed the US. Embassy in Tehran taking more than 60 American hostages. Embassy in Iran for 444 days in 1979 are taking their battle for justice to Congress.

Embassy in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. Consulate in Vancouver and divorcing his wife of 19 years. He was hospitalized imprisoned and tortured for nearly a week as a direct result of an angry mob that jumped over the walls.

Operation Eagle Claw The Iran Hostage Crisis. Embassy in Tehran taking 66 Americans hostage including three CIA officers. JONES Charles A Jr 41 the only black hostage not released early with other blacks is now vice consul at US.

The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980 after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate in South Kensington London. Marine Kenneth Kraus was wounded by a shotgun blast. Embassy in Tehran seized control of the compound and took several dozen American diplomats Marine guards and others hostage.

Fifty-two American citizens were taken hostage when militant students of radical Islam stormed the US. Thomas Leo Ahern Jr 47 McLean Va previously of Fond Du Lac Wis. Prayer in front of the US embassy where 54 hostages are held by Islamist students on November 7 1979 in Tehran Iran.

The Canadian Caper was the joint covert rescue by the Canadian government and the CIA of six American diplomats who had evaded capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran Iran on November 4 1979 after the Iranian Revolution when Islamist students took most of the American embassy personnel hostage demanding the return of the US-backed Shah for trial. The 1980 Election On November 4 1979 a group of Iranian students stormed. Hostages taken at the US.