{"id":3853,"date":"2020-08-16T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2020-08-16T18:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T18:38:04","slug":"iran-hostage-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/2020\/08\/16\/iran-hostage-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Hostage Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The [Iranian] revolution abruptly changed from a serious problem for the United States to an all-out crisis on November 4, 1979, when young radicals stormed the U.S. embassy &#8211;the &#8216;Den of Spies&#8217;&#8211; and took hostage the sixty-six Americans still residing there.\u00a0 The immediate provocation was Carter&#8217;s decision to allow the shah into the United States, but the hostage takers also feared a CIA plot to restore him to power, suspicions encouraged by Jackson&#8217;s statement and the Algiers meeting.\u00a0 Some former hostage-takers now admit, moreover, their real purpose was to push the Bazargan government in more radical directions.\u00a0 They had no idea the takeover would lead to a prolonged crisis; some now concede it to have been a mistake.\u00a0 Khomeni at first opposed the takeover, but when he recognized its popularity he exploited it to get rid of Bazargan and solidify his own power.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211;George Herring,\u00a0<em>From Colony to Superpower,\u00a0<\/em>p. 850<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did historic US ties to the Shah of Iran limit its ability to negotiate a solution to the Iranian hostage crisis?<\/li>\n<li>Assess President Carter&#8217;s failed efforts to end the crisis with Iran in the context of other elements of his foreign policy legacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The [Iranian] revolution abruptly changed from a serious problem for the United States to an all-out crisis on November 4, 1979, when young radicals stormed the U.S. embassy &#8211;the &#8216;Den of Spies&#8217;&#8211; and took hostage the sixty-six Americans still residing there.\u00a0 The immediate provocation was Carter&#8217;s decision to allow the shah into the United States, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}