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Carter Defends Handling of 1979 Iran Crisis...Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 CHIANG MAI, Thailand) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he had no regrets about his handling of the Iran hostage crisis more than 30 years ago, saying he didn't attack the country as his advisers... In this article: Jimmy Carter, Iran, Habitat for Humanity, Ronald Reagan, Chiang Mai, Iran hostage crisis, and Vietnam |
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Washington Times | 3 days ago
PULLEN: GOP came unmoored in last decade - it hurt
...(and interest rates) and unemployment nearing 8 percent. We were told to turn down the thermostat and wear a sweater. We watched the Iranian hostage crisis for 444 days, while Mr. Carter wrung his hands wondering what to do. Americans...
In this article: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Tax, Unemployment, Republican National Committee, General Motors, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro
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Boston Herald | November 16, 2009
Jimmy Carter defends his handling of Iran hostage crisis
Breaking: Sen. Galluccio driven home by cops before hit-and-run Jimmy Carter defends his handling of Iran hostage crisis Monday, November 16, 2009 - Added 2m ago CHIANG MAI, Thailand - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he...
In this article: Jimmy Carter, Habitat for Humanity, Ronald Reagan, Iran, Chiang Mai, U.S., Delta Airlines, and Vietnam
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AP Online | November 16, 2009
Carter defends his handling of Iran hostage crisis
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he had no regrets about his handling of the Iran hostage crisis more than 30 years ago, saying he didn't attack the country as his advisers proposed because...
In this article: Jimmy Carter, Habitat for Humanity, Ronald Reagan, Chiang Mai, Iran, Delta Airlines, Vietnam, and Thailand
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MSNBC.com | November 14, 2009
Our turn for Palin book excerpts; From Iran hostage crisis to creationism
...folks working the late shift. The excerpts are presented in order as they appear in the book. -- On Carter and Reagan: "I had followed the Iran hostage crisis and remember wondering why President Jimmy Carter didn't act more decisively. From...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Jimmy Carter, and NBC News
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San Diego Union-Tribune | November 07, 2009
Today in History - Nov. 4
...Gen. Bernard Montgomery. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson. In 1979, the Iran hostage crisis began as militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants; for...
In this article: R&B, Ronald Reagan, World War II, Jimmy Carter, Tehran, Wyoming, Parole, and Proposition 8
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The Iran hostage crisis (Persian: تصرف سفارت آمریکا) was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 U.S. diplomats were held hostage for 444 days from November 4 1979 to January 20 1981, after a group of Islamist radicals took over the American embassy.
The crisis has been described as an entanglement of "vengeance and mutual incomprehension". In Iran the incident was seen by many as a blow against the U.S., its influence in Iran, its percieved attempts to undermine the Iranian Revolution, and its long standing support of the recently overthrown Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah had been restored to power by a CIA-funded coup in 1953 and had recently been allowed into the United States for cancer treatment. In the United States, the hostage-taking was widely seen as an outrage violating a centuries-old principle of international law granting diplomats immunity from arrest and diplomatic compounds sovereignty in the territory of the host country they occupy.
The ordeal reached a climax when after failed attempts to negotiate a release, the United States military attempted a rescue operation, Operation Eagle Claw, on April 24 1980, which resulted in an aborted mission, the crash of two aircraft and the deaths of eight American military men. The crisis ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in Algeria on January 19 1981. The hostages were formally released into United States custody the following day, just minutes after the new American president Ronald Reagan was sworn in.
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