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Hostage to Khomeini Robert Dreyfuss
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This is not another 'October Surprise' theory purporting how the hostage crisis resulted in some Khomeini-Republic better deal. Khomeini and his fellow mullahs showed their gratitude to Carter by storming the U.S. IPS: Why did the hostage-taking occur at a time when the new government under Ayatollah Khomeini had a normal relationship with the US? On November 4, 1979, a group of students, all of whom were ardent followers of Imam Khomeini, seized the United States embassy in Tehran, and took 63 American citizens as hostage. Embassy and took everyone inside hostage, with Khomeini's support, in retaliation for the U.S. Just finished reading Robert Dreyfuss' Hostage to Khomeini. Then on the 17th, Khomeini decided to release some of the hostages that consisted of females, African Americans, and non-U.S.-citizens due to the fact that women and minorities already suffered “the oppression of American society. Bowden has produced an in-depth study of the 444-day hostage taking, which included mock executions and interrogations, run by a wildly paranoid group of Khomeini followers. On November 4, 1979, he and 51 other Americans were taken hostage by supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini, and held for 444 days. It's an interesting book, or at least the first half of it certainly is. During their 444 days in captivity, the remaining 52 hostages were put on display in front of television cameras, often blindfolded. That theory puts the cart before the horse. Embassy and taking hostages that they kept until Ronald Reagan's first Inauguration Day. Even when Khomeini and the MEK's founder and leader Massod Rajavi clashed over the power and wealth in Iran, Khomeini who was the standing power, held onto the 52 American hostages for 444 days. Islamic students storm the U.S. In November 1979, a group of student radicals overran the U.S. In response to the exiled Shah's admission to the United States in September 1979, a large crowd seized the US embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American citizens hostage. Embassy in Tehran, taking hostage 52 American employees and demand that the shah return from receiving medical treatment in the United States to face trial in Iran.