iran hostage crisis, 1979-1981

Examines the Iran hostage crisis during which fifty-two Americans were held hostage in the Tehran embassy for over 440 days, and offers insights into the event from the perspective of the hostages, soldiers sent to set them free, the radical captors, and diplomats trying to end the crisis.

"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--Provided by publisher.

"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the economic and political issues facing Iran today. It provides up-to-date information about the country’s geography and climate, history, government, politics, society, important cities and communities, and relations with other countries.

In November 1979, the world's attention was focused on the sixty-six American hostages in Iran's U.S. embassy. But another international incident also simmered in the background. Several kilometers from the embassy, another American was behind bars. His whereabouts were unknown to anyone but his Iranian wife, Shahin. Max Copeland, a corporate executive working in Iran, had been seized by Revolutionary Guards and accused of espionage. Unable to get results from the U.S. government, Shahin launches her own operation to save her husband. She breaks all the rules of her stringent patriarchal society but is ultimately successful in getting him released and out of the country. Their son is the author of this book.

CIA agent Tony Mendez tries to help six Americans escape Tehran during the Iran Hostage Crisis by disguising himself and them as a film crew and hiding in plain sight of the Iranians who have taken over the U.S. embassy.

Examines the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-81--during which over fifty Americans were held captive by Iranian militants for 444 days--and the events that led to it, comparing America's actions in the Middle East in the 1970s and early 1980s with its actions there in the early twenty-first century.

Chronicles the events surrounding the 444 days in which a group of Iranian students held Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran and discusses how the crisis defined the Carter presidency and impacted the Reagan administration.

Tells the story of the daring raid to rescue the fifty-three hostages from Iran in 1980 and of what went wrong, including the critical roles played by politics and interservice rivalry.