The Iran Hostage Crisis began just months after the Shah of Iran fled during the Islamic Revolution. When the U.S. allowed ...

The 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran may have ended after 444 days, but both America and Iran still remain captive to a crisis that began 40 years ago. While those held hostage at the embassy ...

1978 – Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s authoritarian rule sparks demonstrations and riots. January 16, 1979 – The Shah flees Iran and goes to Egypt. February 1, 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns ...

Just as Iran and the United States seem to be emerging from a diplomatic freeze that started with the 1979 hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran has appointed a new ambassador with ...

Few could have predicted another chapter in world history would unfold at the Midtown Scholar last week. But it did. Michael Metrinko, whom Iranian students took hostage in their takeover of the ...

Inside the audacious plan to convert a C-130 Hercules into a rocket-assisted Super STOL aircraft capable of landing in a confined urban space for a daring hostage rescue in Iran. Faced with an ever ...