Hostage to Khomeini by Robert Dreyfuss

Hostage to Khomeini Robert Dreyfuss ebook
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Page: 241
ISBN: 0933488114, 9780933488113

Embassy in Iran, taking the 52 diplomats hostage. Bani-Sadr said he discovered that “Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the 'October Surprise,'. It was also a way to raise the intra- and international profile of the revolution's leader, the anti-American cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. 4, 1980, he found his efforts to resolve the hostage crisis thwarted. The Ayatollah Khomeini, who had privately sanctioned the actions of the hostage takers, refused to see U.S emissaries and rebuffed U.S. 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. The students initially intended to hold the hostages for only a short time, but changed their plans when their act garnered widespread praise in Iran. On November 4, 1979, militant Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran and took the staff 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. In November of 1979, Iranian students broke into the U.S. Islamic students storm the U.S. According to Iranian researcher Fara Mansoor, the U.S.-Iran hostage crisis was not a spontaneous act by Iranian mobs or a senseless act devised solely by the Khomeini regime. Affleck as Mendez walking through Khomeini's Iran – Washington Post. As we have seen, for Ayatollah Khomeini the hostage crisis offered a tantalizing opportunity to outflank his domestic political rivals, particularly the moderates. On November 4, 1979, he and 51 other Americans were taken hostage by supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini, and held for 444 days. Just finished reading Robert Dreyfuss' Hostage to Khomeini.