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Hostage to Khomeini by Robert Dreyfuss

Hostage to Khomeini Robert Dreyfuss ebook
Page: 241
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0933488114, 9780933488113
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Islamic students storm the U.S. 4, 1980, Bani-Sadr found his efforts to resolve the hostage crisis thwarted. It was also a way to raise the intra- and international profile of the revolution's leader, the anti-American cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. I have learned that, to his supporters, Imam Khomeini is not the hostage crisis, or the one who hated America as the “Great Satan,” but a liberator from the shah's hated dictatorship. During their 444 days in captivity, the remaining 52 hostages were put on display in front of television cameras, often blindfolded. Hostage to Khomeini by Robert Dreyfuss. Embassy in Tehran, taking hostage 52 American employees and demand that the shah return from receiving medical treatment in the United States to face trial in Iran. The newly installed leader of the Iran's theocracy, Ayatollah Khomeini, was rabidly anti-American and had urged his followers to take action against Western influences. Hostage to Khomeini Robert Dreyfuss ebook. In November 1979, a month before Khomeini became Iran's supreme leader, the Muslim Student Followers laid siege to the US embassy compound in Tehran and seized 52 hostages. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has already dubbed this the “Obama Hostage Crisis.” He's not too far off. Perhaps the most damning evidence against Ahmadinejad with regard to the hostage-taking came from Bani-Sadr, Iran's president during the early days of the Khomeini revolution. For “their audacious initiative,” this small band of Islamist students, the Intelligentsia obtained “unconditional support of Imam Khomeini”. 4th November was the anniversary of the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, in 1979, by Student Followers of Imam Khomeini's Path. Available intelligence suggested that most, if not all, of the Americans were held hostage by members of Hezbollah, a fundamentalist Shiite terrorist group with links to the regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini.