Freeing the hostages : reexamining the U.S.-Iranian negotiations and Soviet policy, 1979-1981 /

On November 4, 1979, militant students and revolutionaries occupied the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking American diplomats hostage and demanding the end of contact with the United States and the extradition of the shah to Iran. The occupation lasted 444 days and galvanized the attention of the world...

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Main Author: Moses, Russell Leigh, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1996.
Series:Pitt series in policy and institutional studies.
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