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: -On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took approximately seventy Americans captive. This terrorist act triggered the most profound crisis of the Carter presidency and began a personal ordeal for Jimmy Carter and the American people that lasted 444 days.

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: -They were hostages in Iran for 444 days. Decades later, they’re waiting for compensation. In this photo from 1985, William F. Keough Jr., who was one of 52 American hostages held in the U.S. Embassy in Iran for 444 days, sits with his daughter Allyssa Keough Stevens.