In which nation were u.s. hostages held for 444 days between 1979 and 1981?

The origins of the crisis:

We had no feeling for the view of the vast majority of the Iranian people at the time. Because they believed as an article of faith that if the Shah came to the United States, it would usher in a series of events similar to those that had happened in 1953, when the CIA. . assisted the pro-Shah demonstrators in overthrowing Mohammed Mossadegh and putting the Shah back on the Peacock throne, They believed that as an article of faith. Whether It was true or not is irrelevant.


Former American hostage Charles Scott’

Iran is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world

President Jimmy Carter, speaking on 31 December 1977

Implicit in chapter 2 is the assumption that the psychological approach to foreign policy analysis popularized by scholars like Robert Jervis, Ole Hoisti and Alexander George explains the behaviour of human beings in a decision-making context, not merely that of decision-makers in the United States.2 Yet most case study analyses which employ a foreign policy decision-making approach have examined their case materials as they were viewed from the American perspective and as the issues were confronted by American decision-makers. The Cuban missile crisis has been exhaustively analysed from the perspective of John Kennedy arid the ExComm, for example. The decisions of Third World states, on the other hand, are rarely viewed through cognitive psychological lenses, and there is even a paucity of theoretically driven studies of British foreign policy. One looks in vain for studies of...

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The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States. 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 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 It stands as the longest hostage crisis in recorded history.

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