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Hostage to Khomeini Robert Dreyfuss
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For “their audacious initiative,” this small band of Islamist students, the Intelligentsia obtained “unconditional support of Imam Khomeini”. The release of the hostages came when the Khomeini government freed the hostages because they did not see anymore gain out of holding the Americans hostage. The French, British, and Germans agreed to support his plan. In response to the exiled Shah's admission to the United States in September 1979, a large crowd seized the US embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American citizens hostage. He Provided political and financial sponsorship. The rebellion, with its spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini, overthrew the US-backed Shah and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. On Inauguration Day 1980 shortly after 4:00 AM he wire-transferred $7.9 billion in an attempt to buy back the hostages after 444 days of humiliation. While Khomeini plotted to kill the Shah of Iran and overthrow his nation. But as hostages, they would become pawns in an internal power struggle within Iran, a handy political device for Khomeini as he sought “hate-figures” to unite the country behind him. Just finished reading Robert Dreyfuss' Hostage to Khomeini. Then on the 17th, Khomeini decided to release some of the hostages that consisted of females, African Americans, and non-U.S.-citizens due to the fact that women and minorities already suffered “the oppression of American society. It's an interesting book, or at least the first half of it certainly is. Iran Hostage Crisis – Letter from Carter to Khomeini. Checks of $150 million to Neauphle-le-Chateau outside Paris.