On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. What was expected to ...

1978 – Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s authoritarian rule sparks demonstrations and riots. January 16, 1979 – The Shah flees Iran and goes to Egypt. February 1, 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns ...

Iran's systematic hostage-taking policy targets American citizens as political leverage, with experts calling for automatic ...

The 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran may have ended after 444 days, but both America and Iran still remain captive to a crisis that began 40 years ago. While those held hostage at the embassy ...

From a CIA-led coup to a hostage crisis and air strikes, here are some of the defining moments in seven decades of relations ...

Barry Rosen knows what it means to wait for freedom. He spent 444 days as a hostage, one of 52 Americans held prisoner at the U.S. embassy in Iran from 1979 to 1981. He described when he was reunited ...

Iranian officials blame the U.S. and Israel for the current unrest, claiming that they have supported “terrorist” teams that ...

The US hostage crisis ended in 1981 under the Reagan administration, which lifted the sanctions but only after Iran hastened ...

Jimmy Carter says he handled the Iranian hostage crisis 30 years ago the right way, and that if he had attacked Tehran, thousands would have died.