On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. What was expected to last days stretched into 444 humiliating days for the United States.

A Missouri veteran who survived 444 days of captivity in Iran during President Jimmy Carter's administration told lawmakers ...

The 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran may have ended after 444 days, but both America and Iran still remain captive to a crisis that began 40 years ago. While those held hostage at the embassy ...

On May 5, 1980, Britain’s SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London in a blistering 17-minute assault that stunned the world. Operation Nimrod wasn’t just a hostage rescue - it was a political gamble, ...

Barry Rosen knows what it means to wait for freedom. He spent 444 days as a hostage, one of 52 Americans held prisoner at the U.S. embassy in Iran from 1979 to 1981. He described when he was reunited ...

Women sit on a low wall beneath a large banner outside the former U.S. embassy compound as crowds gather to mark the anniversary in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 4, 2025. The compound, seized during the 1979 ...

Just as Iran and the United States seem to be emerging from a diplomatic freeze that started with the 1979 hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran has appointed a new ambassador with ...

Iran since the Islamic revolution has employed the tactic of arresting Westerners in a bid to extract concessions from its foes, in a strategy of "hostage diplomacy" that has long presented Europe and ...

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