Panorama| What was the story of Iran hostage crisis

EtemadOnline|

At November 4th 1979, the Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini's Line attacked the US embassy and took 66 Americans as hostage for 444 days.

The first invasion

At February 14th 1979, 3 days after the Islamic revolution, an armed Marxist and leftist group attacked the US embassy. After 2 hours it was solved with the presence of Ibrahim Yazdi, secretary of state and the

help of the army.

The second occupation

On October 22th 1979 The US allowed the Shah to enter it's soil and Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini's Line concluded that

attacking the embassy is the best respond to it.

Bazargan

The most important event after occupying the US embassy was the resignation of Bazargan administration.

Argo

At the day of the attack 6 American diplomats could escape and got out of Iran in January 28th 1980 with the help of CIA and the Canadian embassy. Argo was made based on this story by Ben Affleck.

The defeat of carter

The US tried to free the hostages with the operation eagle claw but the operation was hit by a sandstorm and got defeated.

The impact of the occupation

8 days after the attack the first US sanctions against Iran began. The US cut off oil purchases from Iran and blocked Iranian property on it's soil.