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Hostage to Khomeini Robert Dreyfuss
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In response to the exiled Shah's admission to the United States in September 1979, a large crowd seized the US embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American citizens hostage. On November 4, 1979, Iranian students answering to Iran's Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini seized the U.S. Legendary CBS newsman Mike Wallace died this weekend at the age of 93. In November 1979, a month before Khomeini became Iran's supreme leader, the Muslim Student Followers laid siege to the US embassy compound in Tehran and seized 52 hostages. IPS: Why did the hostage-taking occur at a time when the new government under Ayatollah Khomeini had a normal relationship with the US? Students also clashes with riot police We must know that Khomeini was British agent. Rather than simply occupying the embassy for a while and departing, the protesters took 52 hostages and held them with the approval of the country's new leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. In November 1979, a group of student radicals overran the U.S. On November 4, 1979, he and 51 other Americans were taken hostage by supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini, and held for 444 days. According to Iranian researcher Fara Mansoor, the U.S.-Iran hostage crisis was not a spontaneous act by Iranian mobs or a senseless act devised solely by the Khomeini regime. Then on the 17th, Khomeini decided to release some of the hostages that consisted of females, African Americans, and non-U.S.-citizens due to the fact that women and minorities already suffered “the oppression of American society. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days. Embassy and took everyone inside hostage, with Khomeini's support, in retaliation for the U.S. Students took at least 6 to 8 embassy staff hostage according to MEHR News Agency and Iranian Central TV. From the 60 Minutes site, his interview with the Ayatollah Khomeini during the hostage crisis: Bookmark and Share. The Iranian hostage taking was politically staged and instigated by the operatives in the shadow CIA.