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During the 1977 Hanafi Siege of a federal building in Washington, Zahedi and two other ambassadors from Muslim nations were able to talk the hostage takers into surrendering and releasing 149 hostages.
Monireh Taslimi, born Monir Akhundnia in 1926 in Bandar Anzali (then known as Bandar Pahlavi), …