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Shah of Iran
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi is forced to leace Iran and go into exile -
Period: to
hostages of the Ayatollah
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Ayatollah Khomeini
Islamic religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini takes power in Iran
Ayatollah is very much against Americans -
the beginning
A groups of radical Islamist students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took 66 American hostages.
Iranian students seuze 63 hostages at U.S. embassy in Tehran -
release
November 19-20
13 women+black hostage are relseased -
escape
6 American diplomats who managed to escape the embassy on November 4 made it home with help from Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor -
Operation Eagle Claw
rescue mission of hostages fails because of a standstorm -
ill hostage
1 severely ill hostage is relseased
the hostage is later diagnosed with MS -
death
the exiled Shah dies -
Iraq invades Iran
Iran realizes that they want to be allies with the U.S. because we are a strong country -
signing of Algiers Accords
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the release
release of the 52 remaining hostages