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The enduring stain of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis

The enduring stain of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis

  • Forty years ago on Nov. 4, a mob of Iranian students seized the US embassy in Tehran
  • The consequences of the 1979 events reverberate to this day across the Middle East
By Arab News ·

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