On November 4, 1979, Iranian students stormed into the Embassy in and took more than 60 American hostages. The cause of action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, an autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. It was a way to raise the profile of the revolution’s leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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