the 1979 hostage crisis
It has been seen as one of the causes of the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
This is because the Iranian people were opposed to America's policies in Iran.
Iran
Ayatollah was the President in Iran during the hostage crisis. The hostages were taken in the US embassy in Tehran and were released 444 days later.
The Iran Hostage crisis, when US diplomats in Tehran were held captive for more than a year.
Hostage holding is blackmail where mean, weak people threaten to hurt hostages in order to get something for releasing them unharmed. It is like kidnapping on a large scale. The Iranian hostage crisis was meant to humiliate the US government or force it into an open armed conflict (war) where they could unite the entire Islamic world behind them as leaders in a holy war.
Most simply, the hostages in the Iran Hostage Crisis were US citizens. As a result, the US intervened in order to protect their citizens. As for why Iranians overran the US Embassy and took its workers as hostages, this was in retaliation for the US failure to render the deposed Shah back to the Iranian Revolutionaries for "justice", which would have been a kangaroo court and execution.
President James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
The US had always been a strong ally of Shah Pahlavi, the previous ruler of Iran before the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution, and just as the new theocracy had rebelled against the corrupt regime of the Shah, so too did they rebel against the Shah's cynical ally, the US. Of course, in so doing, they set in motion a conflict that continues to this day in various ways, and is highly destructive. It was not a smart move.
The Iranian Hostage Crisis was caused by Jimmy Carter, who helped the Iranian Shah escape and receive medical treatment. The Iranian revolutionists didn't support this and took the US people hostages because they wanted the US government to extradite the Shah and have him stand trial for crimes he committed.
The Iranian Hostage Crisis was caused by Jimmy Carter, who helped the Iranian Shah escape and receive medical treatment. The Iranian revolutionists didn't support this and took the US people hostages because they wanted the US government to extradite the Shah and have him stand trial for crimes he committed.