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"The United States Will Not Give in to Blackmail": in Iran, the Diplomacy of Hostages

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On November 4, 1979, Islamist students stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days. A spectacular scene, supported by Khomeini, which would humiliate America and inaugurate hostage diplomacy, still in force today.

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"The United States Will Not Give in to Blackmail": in Iran, the Diplomacy of Hostages

On November 4, 1979, Islamist students stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days. A spectacular scene, supported by Khomeini, which would humiliate America and inaugurate hostage diplomacy, still in force today.

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