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The vice consul’s story also intersects with two flashpoints in Iranian-American relations: a 1953 coup backed by the CIA and the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
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Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
The Americans had withdrawn from Vietnam just a few years earlier, and the presumably weak U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, was preoccupied with the American hostage crisis in Iran.
—Milton Bearden, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2022
The American hostage crisis, which began in November 1979 when Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days further isolated us.
—Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
Yet for many Israelis – fixated for more than eight months on the war with Hamas in Gaza and a traumatic hostage crisis – the prospect of war on an additional front elicits a blend of fatigue and resignation that conflict is perhaps inevitable.
—Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2024
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Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
The Americans had withdrawn from Vietnam just a few years earlier, and the presumably weak U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, was preoccupied with the American hostage crisis in Iran.
—Milton Bearden, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2022
The American hostage crisis, which began in November 1979 when Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days further isolated us.
—Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
Yet for many Israelis – fixated for more than eight months on the war with Hamas in Gaza and a traumatic hostage crisis – the prospect of war on an additional front elicits a blend of fatigue and resignation that conflict is perhaps inevitable.
—Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2024
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“Hostage crisis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hostage%20crisis. Accessed 9 Oct. 2024.
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