On Nov. 4, 1979, while working as a guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sickmann became one of 66 American hostages ...

1978 – Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s authoritarian rule sparks demonstrations and riots. January 16, 1979 – The Shah flees Iran and goes to Egypt. February 1, 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns ...

The strategy has a long history, going back to the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November 1979 by Islamist ...

May 11, 2006 — -- Mark Bowden, who wrote "Black Hawk Down" about America's ill-fated military action in Somalia, has a new book about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis called "Guests of the Ayatollah.

In 1979, right after the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah and replaced his largely secular regime with a fanatically theocratic one, Iran effectively declared war on both Israel and America. As ...

Barry Rosen knows what it means to wait for freedom. He spent 444 days as a hostage, one of 52 Americans held prisoner at the U.S. embassy in Iran from 1979 to 1981. He described when he was reunited ...

The 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran may have ended after 444 days, but both America and Iran still remain captive to a crisis that began 40 years ago. While those held hostage at the embassy ...

Just as Iran and the United States seem to be emerging from a diplomatic freeze that started with the 1979 hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran has appointed a new ambassador with ...

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed Monday during a meeting with students that there would be no move toward ...