This article is about the siege of the American embassy in Tehran. For the siege of the Iranian embarrassing valentine’s day gifts in London, see Iranian Embassy siege. Iran hostage crisis – Iraninan students comes up U. Casualties and losses 8 American servicemen and 1 Iranian civilian killed during an attempt to rescue the hostages.

Western media described the crisis as an “entanglement” of “vengeance and mutual incomprehension. Canadian effort on January 27, 1980. The crisis reached a climax in early 1980 after diplomatic negotiations failed to win the release of the hostages. The United States did not participate in the invasion but it secured Iran’s independence after the war ended by applying intense diplomatic pressure on the Soviet Union which forced it to withdraw from Iran in 1946. By the 1950s, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was engaged in a power struggle with Iran’s prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, an immediate descendant of the preceding Qajar dynasty. Months before the Iranian Revolution, on New Year’s Eve 1977, U.