Ayatollah khomeini biography iranian hostage crisis
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Today’s post comes from Michael J. Hancock, archives expert at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library has published a new online exhibit, The Iran Hostage Crisis, and an A.P. US History lektion Plan in support of National Archives civics programming. Through the lens of primary sources, images, and the U.S. Constitution, the exhibit examines the causes of the crisis, those 444 days of captivity, and the impacts of this conflict.
“Before God and my fellow citizens, inom wanted to exert every ounce of my strength and ability during these last few days to achieve their liberation.” ~President Jimmy Carter
On November 4, 1979, Iranian students in Tehran seized the U.S. Embassy and took 52 Americans hostage. The Iran Hostage Crisis lasted for 444 days and ended minutes after President Jimmy Carter left office in 1981.
In 1977 the United States and Iran enjoyed a friendly diplomatic relationship. President Carter and th
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
For other people named Khomeini, see Khomeini (name).
"Khomeini" redirects here. Not to be confused with his successor, Ali Khamenei.
Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini[b] (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902[a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamist revolutionary, politician and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and ended the Iranian monarchy. Ideologically a Shia Islamist, Khomeini's religious and political ideas are known as Khomeinism.
Born in Khomeyn, in what is now Iran's Markazi province, his father was murdered in 1903 when Khomeini was just two years old. He began studying the Quran and Arabic from a young age and was assisted in his religious studies by his relatives, including his moth
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Iran hostage crisis
Americans taken hostage in Iran in 1979
This article is about the siege of the American embassy in Tehran. For the siege of the Iranian embassy in London, see Iranian Embassy siege.
The Iran hostage crisis (Persian: بحران گروگانگیری سفارت آمریکا) was a terrorist attack on the United States embassy in Tehran in which 53 Americans were taken hostage on November 4, 1979. The Americans, including diplomats and civilians, were seized by a group of armed students, supporters of the Iranian Revolution, among them Hossein Dehghan (future Iranian Minister of Defense), Mohammad Ali Jafari (future Revolutionary Guards Commander-In-Chief) and Mohammad Bagheri (future Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Army).[3][4][5][6] The crisis was a pivotal episode in the history of Iran–United States relations.[7] On January 20, 1981, after the signing of the Algiers Accords, the hostages were released.
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