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Hostage to Khomeini Robert Dreyfuss
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4, 1980, he found his efforts to resolve the hostage crisis thwarted. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has already dubbed this the “Obama Hostage Crisis.” He's not too far off. In November 1979, a group of student radicals overran the U.S. Embassy and took everyone inside hostage, with Khomeini's support, in retaliation for the U.S. On November 4, 1979, he and 51 other Americans were taken hostage by supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini, and held for 444 days. Available intelligence suggested that most, if not all, of the Americans were held hostage by members of Hezbollah, a fundamentalist Shiite terrorist group with links to the regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Embassy and taking hostages that they kept until Ronald Reagan's first Inauguration Day. Khomeini and his fellow mullahs showed their gratitude to Carter by storming the U.S. Bani-Sadr said he discovered that “Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the 'October Surprise,'. [From Hostage to Khomeini, "It was the alliance between the Freemasons, the old landowners and the clergy that mounted the operation against the Shah in 1963. In response to the exiled Shah's admission to the United States in September 1979, a large crowd seized the US embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American citizens hostage.