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1979 hostage crisis: Iran’s long history of antagonism

  • Writer: Caline Malek
    Caline Malek
  • Nov 4, 2018
  • 1 min read
  • Looking back: on this day 39 years ago, Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and took more than 60 Americans hostage

  • The date coincides with the same day the US set for a second set of sanctions to be reinstated on Iran after Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal

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