Iranian Embassy siege happened on 1980-05-05.
It lasted for 6 days, from the 30th of April to the 5th of May 1980.
1980 30th April 11:30
1979.
Radical followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini overran the U.S. Embassy and took Americans hostage to protest the admission of the Shah of Iran into the United States for medical treatment, or because the US was spying on Iran from inside the embassy.
Radical followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini overran the U.S. Embassy and took Americans hostage to protest the admission of the Shah of Iran into the United States for medical treatment, or because the US was spying on Iran from inside the embassy.
Since 1979, the Iranian embassy in America was closed. In that year a group of Iranianstudents attacked and some of America's embassy to embassy personnel were held hostage. They believed that America Embassy personnel in Iran as spy.
The US Embassy hostages in Iran.
Go to your nearest Iranian embassy and apply for an entry visa. Also note: there is no Iranian embassy in the US, which does not have diplomatic relations with Iran. But then, I don't actually know what country you live in.
Operation Eagle Claw was a failed US attempt to rescue hostages from the US Embassy in Iran, which had been seized by the Iranians.
The Soverign American Embassy Territory of the US in Tehran, Iran was siezed, and occupied by Iran and Iranian militants on 4 Novemer 1969.
The president at that time was Jimmy Carter.
Radical followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini overran the U.S. Embassy and took Americans hostage to protest the admission of the Shah of Iran into the United States for medical treatment, or because the US was spying on Iran from inside the embassy.
Tehran, Iran.
Iran held 52 US diplomats hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981[1]
Americans turned against Iran when Iranian rebels held 54 US Embassy officials hostage for over 400 days.