Author: Catherine Bayas

On November 4th, 1979, a group of Iranian university students and Islamist radicals seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 65 Americans hostage. The students were motivated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s decision to permit the entry of Reza Pahlavi,

In August of 1953, the United States and Britain directed a covert operation to overthrow the government of the Iranian prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and replace it with a new one led by Reza Pahlevi, the constitutional monarch, or shah,