Iran, 1979-1997: Islamic Republic, War, and Thermidor
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The Imams and the U.S. Embassie Takeover
A few months after the Revolution's triumph on November 4, 1979, a group of Islamist students seized the U.S. embassy and took the personnel hostage. What sparked that move and who authorized it? And then how would this incident come to fundamentally shape what sort of regime the Islamic Republic would become? The embassy taking in 1979 is a turning point in the early history of the Islamic Revolution and the nascent Islamic Republic.
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