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This 3 page paper describes the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and the U.S. response. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the U.S. response, and continuing policies with regard to Iran. Discussion As is probably true of most such extreme actions, the roots of the hostage crisis go back decades. Here,
it goes back to 1951, when the duly elected leader of Iran, Prime Minister Dr Mohammad Mossadeq nationalized the oil industry ("Irans Century of Upheaval"). This of course threatened the
oil supply of the U.S., which responded by helping to overthrow Mossadeq in a coup in 1953; the Shah was reinstalled on the throne and resentment began to build ("Irans
Century of Upheaval"). Soon after taking power, the Shah introduced a series of economic and social reforms know as the "White Revolution" and as part of his reform attempts, "clamps
down on secular and religious opponents and imprisons Ayatollah Khomeini" ("Irans Century of Upheaval"). The Ayatollah Khomeini is extremely influential and so is sent into Turkey, into exile, for
"opposing a bill granting US military personnel diplomatic immunity. In 1965, he moves to Iraq where he remains until 1978"; in February 1979, he returns to Iran to lead the
revolution ("Irans Century of Upheaval"). The Shah, meanwhile, had infuriated the Iranians by his corruption and cruelty; when he was allowed to enter the United States for cancer treatments at
the Mayo Clinic, it brought matters to the boiling point, and the U.S. diplomats were taken hostage ("Irans Century of Upheaval"). Although all were eventually released (there were no hostage
fatalities), Americans were furious and President Carter immediately took what actions he could to "punish" Iran: "He stopped the delivery of $300 million in spare parts for the military arsenal
bought from the U.S. by the Shah ... ordered the deportation of all Iranian students in the U.S. who were not complying with the terms of their visas, suspended imports
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