United States hostage crisis

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His initial response was to appeal for the release of the hostages on humanitarian grounds and to share his hopes for a strategic anti-communist alliance with the Ayatollah.As some of the student leaders had hoped, homeland’s moderate prime minister, Bazargan, and his cabinet resigned under pressure just days after the takeover.

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