what was the attack on a US embassy that lasted 444 days?

Answer 1

The Hostage Crisis in Iran

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took approximately seventy Americans captive. This terrorist act triggered the most profound crisis of the Carter presidency and began a personal ordeal for Jimmy Carter and the American people that lasted 444 days.

President Carter committed himself to the safe return of the hostages while protecting America's interests and prestige. He pursued a policy of restraint that put a higher value on the lives of the hostages than on American retaliatory power or protecting his own political future.

The toll of patient diplomacy was great, but President Carter's actions brought freedom for the hostages with America's honor preserved.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, began his reign in 1941, succeeding his father, Reza Khan, to the throne. In a 1953 power struggle with his prime minister, the Shah gained American support to prevent nationalization of Iran's oil industry. In return for assuring the U.S. a steady supply of oil, the Shah received economic and military aid from eight American presidents.

Early in the 1960s, the Shah announced social and economic reforms but refused to grant broad political freedom. Iranian nationalists condemned his U.S. supported regime and his "westernizing" of Iran. During rioting in 1963, the Shah cracked down, suppressing his opposition. Among those arrested and exiled was a popular religious nationalist and bitter foe of the United States, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Between 1963 and 1979, the Shah spent billions of oil dollars on military weapons. The real price of military strength was the loss of popular support. Unable to sustain economic progress and unwilling to expand democratic freedoms, the Shah's regime collapsed in revolution. On January 16, 1979, the Shah fled Iran, never to return.

The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran in February 1979 and whipped popular discontent into rabid anti-Americanism. When the Shah came to America for cancer treatment in October, the Ayatollah incited Iranian militants to attack the U.S. On November 4, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun and its employees taken captive. The hostage crisis had begun.

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Answer 2

The US Embassy in Tehran, Iran was taken over in October 1979 as part of the result of the Iranian Revolution. Ayatollah Khomeini lead a group that took over Iran. The Shah of Iran fled the country. He eventually made it to the United States for cancer treatment. Students stormed the Embassy in protest because they wanted to try the Shah for crimes against the Iranian people. This triggered the hostage crisis that lasted for 444 days. President Jimmy Carter proved inept at trying to free the hostages. The hostages were released on January 20, 1981 after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.

Answer 3

This was the end of the Carter administration- thank God!! Iranian militants stormed the US embassy in Iran, captured and held captive Americans from the embassy. Just as Ronald Reagan was being sworn in the Iranians released them.

Answer 4

the iran crisis in 1979

Answer 5

Tehran in 1979. ~