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Fundamentalists, mostly students, stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage. This was designed to pressure the new government that replaced the Shah, and prevent the US from interfering in the formation of a fundamentalist state. The Shah found asylum in Egypt, but died from his cancer the following July (1980). The hostages were not released until Ronald Reagan replaced Jimmy Carter as US president on January 20, 1981.

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