The hostage crisis began in November 1979 following the Islamic Revolution led by Iran’s late supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini which ousted the Western-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
Tehran’s support of various Shia militant organizations and proxy terrorists is what led to the Reagan Administration’s branding of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. From 1953-1979 ...
TEHRAN: Thousands of Iranians rallied on Sunday by the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the 1979 hostage crisis, ridiculing Joe Biden and Donald Trump just two days before the US presidential ...
Iranian air defenses are a patchwork of Russian systems, some indigenous ones, and antiquated systems that pre-date the 1979 Iranian ... got from Russia before the S-300s and Iran certainly ...
State-organised rallies were held across Iran on Sunday to mark the 1979 takeover of the United States embassy in Tehran. In the capital, thousands chanted “death to America” and “death to ...