Ayatollah Khomeini.
Americans turned against Iran when Iranian rebels held 54 US Embassy officials hostage for over 400 days.
In 1979, in anger at the United States' refusal to render the deposed Shah back into Iranian custody, Iranians loyal to the Khomeini regime stormed the US embassy and took all of the embassy personnel hostage.
In late 1979, the American embassy in Iran was taken over by Iranian students and militants during the Iranian Revolution. The takeover lasted for 444 days and resulted in the holding of 52 American diplomats and citizens as hostages. This event strained relations between the United States and Iran for many years.
The Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon was attacked on November 19, 2013. The double bombing killed at least 23 people, including a diplomat.
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.
In 1979 Shia Iranian revolutionaries took American diplomats and servicemen hostage. They were taken from the American Embassy in Tehran.
Iranian embassy hostage rescue
granting asylum to the Shah of Iran Many Iranians were frustrated with the American government because it supported the shah of Iran during the time. The Shah was a totalitarian leader, which the Iranians did not like, but he tried to westernize Iran which gained the favor of the US. As a result there was a protest outside of the American embassy in Tehran, which ended storming the embassy and taking Americans hostages. The movie Argo details some of these issues.
Check with you local embassy or consulate.
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.
In November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran and detained 66 American diplomats. The hostage crisis lasted for 444 days.
November 4 1979, during the Iranian Revolution. The hostages were released 444 days later, the same day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.