The Revolution Of The United States

The shah of Iran became really sick with lymphoma and President Carter allowed him to gain access into the U.S. for medical treatment. This action caused a lot of commotion in Iran and caused the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

In 1908, oil was discovered in massive quantities in Iran. Ever since, Iran has attracted a great deal of attention from other countries. In 1953, the United States felt that Iran was moving ever closer to Russia. To keep Iran out of Russian hands, the CIA overthrew Iran’s prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and placed the Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi, in place as dictator. However, the Shah was greatly disliked by innumerable Iranians because they felt he went against Islam and he let his secret police, the SAVAK, brutally control the people. In 1963, they openly rebelled. The revolutionaries were subdued forcefully and the leader of the rebellion, Ruhollah Khomeini, was exiled and sent to Iraq. This was the start of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. The people began to rebel more and more often until, on January 16, 1979, the Shah raced away to Egypt. On January 30, 1979, thousands of Iranians cheered for Ruhollah Khomeini as he came back to Iran after fourteen years as an exile. Then there was a major question: should the United States, the Shah’s former ally, allow him to enter the country? According to Vice President Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter “went around the room, and most of us said, ‘Let him

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students barged inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took more than 60 Americans hostages. This gave the Ronald Reagan the opportunity and the advantage of President Carter’s difficulties. There were rumors that circulated that the Reagan campaign staff negotiated with the Iranian people to be sure the American hostages not be released before the election which Ronald Reagan was running against President Carter. On Election Day, it has been one year and two days since the Americans were captive, Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in the presidential by a landslide. On January 21, 1981, just a few hours after the new President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural speech, the remaining American hostages were released. President Reagan has always denied the allegations with the negotiation with the Iranian people.

The Iran Hostage Crisis, the beginning of United States interactions with Islamic extremists and economic reform in the middle east lasted from 1979 to 1981. The birth of these extremists lies in the economic policies of the United States and the middle east. The Shah, who was the supreme leader of the nation of Iran, was an ally of the United States for several decades. Despite his support from the U.S. government, he was known as a brutal leader who used excessive force and torture of his people, mostly Iranian students who spoke out against him. After decades of death, torture, abuse and other heinous crimes against humanity, the people of Iran began supporting Ayatollah Khomeini, a fundamentalist. To force events to transpire quicker, students took action by attacking the United States embassy and capturing hostages. These protestors saw the embassy as a physical representation of support for the Shah and his oppressive and cruel regime. The Americans who were working in the embassy on that day were taken hostage. What was suspected as being a relatively short hostage situation

On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of some 300 to 500 supposed “students” who called themselves “Imam’s Disciples,” laid siege to the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran. The mob held 66 U.S. citizens and diplomats as hostages. Women and African-Americans were released a short while later, but 52 hostages still remained for 444 days. The president took precautions to ensure the safety of the hostages as well as U.S. relations in Iran. This terrorist act triggered the most profound crisis of the Carter presidency and began a personal ordeal for Jimmy Carter and the American people. The events in the Iran Hostage Crisis demonstrate how bad the president at the time, Jimmy Carter, can handle such a horrible situation.

The Iranian hostage crisis occurred on November 4, 1979. This crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran, which lasted 444 days. A group of Iranian students from the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line took over the United States embassy in the capital city of Tehran. This crisis is known as the longest hostage situation in recorded history. A total of 52 diplomats and citizens were held hostages within the U.S embassy. In Iran, this crisis was widely viewed as an attack against the United States and its influence within Iranian borders. During this crisis, the United States also granted asylum to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after he was overthrown in 1979. The people of Iran demanded that the United States return

After the run in with the Islamic clergy, the Shah remained friendly with the United States even though there was a growing movement to remove him as the head of Iran. In 1979 the Shah, facing growing dissent and being labeled as anti-Islamic, fled to Egypt to get away from the uprising. It was then, after fourteen years, that Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran. Little did anyone know, the Shah had been suffering from cancer and needed medical assistance to treat it. After much resistance and fearing the backlash from Iran, President Carter allowed the Shah to come to the United States for treatment. It was then that the United States embassy was attacked and the hostages taken.

Following a successful revolution by Islamic fundamentalists against the pro-American Shah of Iran, in 1979 the United States and the US Embassy were targets of criticism in Iran. On November fourth of 1979, Iranian students seized the embassy and detained

While ultimately incorrect, American officials did have an earlier precedent to validate their belief in a swift resolution to the crisis. Earlier that year, on February 19, a similar event occurred in Iran; a group of Iranians belonging to a Marxist faction stormed the United States embassy and held hostages for a short period of time until the

When Pahlavi made it to the United States in October 1979, Islamic militants in Tehran responded on November 4 by initiating the Iranian hostage crisis (Chun and History.com).

Had Carter refused to admit the shah to the United States in the first place, the Iranian people would not have had such a strong catalyst for aggression, and their storming of the embassy would likely have not transformed into the charged hostage environment it ultimately became (Glad, 1989). Furthermore, the United States had a viable alternative location to send the shah, i.e., Mexico City, which had medical facilities adequately equipped to treat the shah’s illness. None of Carter’s officials, however, proposed such a plan to him, and he never even knew such an alternative existed (Glad, 1989).

The Iranian Hostage Crisis was an event that took place in the capital of Iran in November of 1979 that lasted a long four-hundred and forty-four days. What led up to the breaking point in the Hostage crisis happened fast and was a result of a bad tie between the people and government of Iran and the US’ involvement with Iran. During the crisis the US’ president Jimmy Carter had the military attempt rescues of the hostages. The Iranian Hostage crisis did not only cause tensions to flare between the US and Iran but also the crisis was a result of already weak ties between the two countries leading to a negative relationship in the years that followed.

Militant student, followers of the Ayatollah stormed the Embassy and took all personnel hostage. This was the second time in 1979 the embassy was taken and only a few people remained behind its gates. The students only planned to take the hostages for a few days, hopping that the United States would return the ousted Shah, to face trial. When the US refused, to return the Shah, the stalemate began, and the students held the hostages for 444 days.

In January of 1979, the Shah of Iran was sent into exile. After a little over a year of demonstrations and protests Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Persian monarch, was driven out of his country, and out of power. The U.S-backed Shah was replaced by the leader of the revolution, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who replaced the Pahlavi dynasty with an Islamic Republic. In the following months after the revolution, anti-American sentiment was still very high in Iran. Iranian students and protesters responded by taking 66 American diplomats and citizens hostage, 52 of which were held for 444 days.

When the Iranian revolution took place is 1979, Iranian civilians were in search for a better life which would bring them more political freedom, which at the time, they were lacking. The revolution, attempting to overthrow Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi occurred and not only were Iranian civilians striped of their political freedom, but they were stripped of their other rights and privileges as well. The new ideological theocratic government betrayed the hopes and dreams of civilians of having a better democratic life and instead set up a theocratic dictatorship that affect Iranians until this day. Relations between the United States and Iran has changed drastically ever since the Pahlavi Dynasty. At one point, prior to 1979, America and Iran were