USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The hostages were held for 444 days, being released on January 20, 1981. Western media described the crisis as an “entanglement” of “vengeance and mutual incomprehension.” U.S. President Jimmy Carter called the hostage-taking an act of “blackmail” and the hostages “victims of terrorism and anarchy."

Detailed explanation-2: -Ode was one of the fifty-two American citizens taken hostage by Iranian students in November 1979 at the American embassy in Tehran. They were held for a total of 444 days and finally released, after lengthy negotiations, on January 20, 1981.

Detailed explanation-3: -On November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans, ranging from the Chargé d’Affaires to the most junior members of the staff, as hostages. The Iranians held the American diplomats hostage for 444 days.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Iran Hostage Crisis was a major international crisis caused by the seizure of the U.S. Embassy, and its employees, by revolutionary Iranian students. The students, with support from the Ayatollah Khomeini-led government of Iran, held Embassy employees as hostages for 444 days.

Detailed explanation-5: -How did the Iran hostage crisis end? The Iran hostage crisis ended after negotiations held in 1980 and early 1981, with Algerian diplomats acting as intermediaries. Iran’s demands centered largely on releasing frozen Iranian assets and lifting a trade embargo that the U.S. had coordinated.