Timeline of the Iranian hostage crisis

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Iranian students enter U.S. embassy in Tehran.
An anti-Iranian protest in Washington, D.C., in 1979.
Overview of the wreckage at the Iranian Desert after the failed rescue operation by Delta Force, April 1980.
Americans welcoming the six freed hostage by Canadian diplomats during the Iran hostage crisis, 1980.

This is a timeline of the Iran hostage crisis (1979–1981), starting from the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's leaving of Iran and ending at the return of all hostages to the United States.[1]

  1. ^ "Iran Hostage Crisis Fast Facts". CNN Middle East. 16 September 2013.