Iran hostage crisis



Iranian students crowd the U.S. Embassy in Tehran (November 4 1979)

Date: November 4, 1979 – January 20, 1981; (444 days or 1 year, 2 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location: Tehran, Iran
Result: Hostages released by Algiers Accords

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

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