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.
Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fourth episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We pick up in the wake of the Islamic Revolution as Khomeini consolidates power, represses his rivals, and confronts an invasion from Saddam Hussein's Iraq. We continue through the Iran-Iraq War, the mass execution of thousands of leftist prisoners, and Khamenei and Rafsanjani's rise to power after Khomeini's death.
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