Advance into the Embassy
1979 On November 4, 1979, college students from Iran capital Tehran organized a "commemoration of the first anniversary of the opposition to the King's riot". At around 10:30 a.m., a team of more than 400 students passed the city center and came to the door of the US Embassy in Tehran on Roosevelt Street and surrounded the embassy.
Angry students held up the portrait of Khomeini and shouted loudly with slogans such as "Extradition Pahlavi", "Defeat the United States", and "Let the Great Allah punish the demons". The students' actions attracted many passers-by, with more and more onlookers and participants, and the situation gradually became tense.
Seeing that the visitor was not good, the U.S. Marine Corps soldiers who were in the embassy were hurriedly taken precautions, closed the embassy gate, and were on guard.
After a while, the emotional students began to take serious action. Some students climbed over the wall of the US Embassy and entered the yard. These students who entered the hospital first broke the chains on the embassy's door. So, angry people outside the courtyard flooded into the courtyard of the US Embassy like a tide. Meanwhile, the Iranian police, who were in charge of guards on the street outside the embassy, turned a blind eye and allowed students to enter the U.S. embassy.
In the messy US embassy, some people called the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and some people called the Iranian police, but all this was futile and no one paid any attention. The situation is getting more and more urgent, and American diplomats in the embassy have realized the seriousness of the situation and have begun burning top-secret documents. The soldiers of the Marine Corps who guarded the embassy distributed gas masks to the embassy staff and cast tear gas into the yard to make symbolic resistance to delay time.
After nearly three hours of conflict, Iranian students have completely taken control of the US Embassy. In this diplomatic territory belonging to the United States of America , more than 60 American diplomats with immunity were tied up with their hands behind their backs, blindfolded and imprisoned. These militants took 66 American diplomats hostage. The 13 hostages were released soon after, but the remaining 53 hostages were detained until January 20, 1981.
After the radical students seized all the personnel in the embassy, they immediately announced through the media that they would use all the personnel in the U.S. Embassy as hostages to exchange for former Iranian king Pahlavi in the United States. If the U.S. government does not agree to their request, they will execute the hostages!
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In the late 1970s, the Persian Gulf region , which is of great strategic significance in the world, entered a turbulent autumn.
In January 1979, a large-scale popular uprising broke out in Iran, opposing King Pahlavi, forcing the monarch of the Islamic country to abdicate and flee abroad. At the same time, Khomeini, the Shiite religious leader of the Pahlavi dynasty, who had been exiled abroad for many years, returned to his country. In February, under Khomeini's leadership, Iran ended the Pahlavi dynasty and established the Islamic Republic of Iran. In early October of the same year, Pahlavi, who was exiled to , Mexico, and was suffering from cancer and was in serious condition. In order to save lives, Pahlavi filed an application for entry to the United States, requesting treatment at the Cornell Medical Center in New York, USA. The Carter administration of the United States was not prepared to agree to the application of the abdicated Iranian king, fearing that it would offend the anti-king religious forces in Iran, resulting in diplomatic conflicts and endanger the interests of the United States in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf . However, President Carter, known as the "good gentleman", cannot withstand the lobbying of domestic politicians. Pahlavi's old friend and President of Chase Manhattan Bank, David Rockefeller, personally took action to put pressure on Washington to require the government to approve Pahlavi's entry visa. At the same time, Kissinger, a think tank in the government, also tried his best to mediate. Finally, under pressure from multiple parties, the Carter government approved Pahlavi's entry visa in mid-October. On the night of October 22, Pahlavi moved to the Cornell Medical Center in New York.
Reza Pahlavi , the king who ruled Iran for 38 years, has a good personal relationship with the upper class of the United States. Pahlavi restored the throne with the help of the CIA in 1953. After he returned to power, he gave considerable care to the interests of the United States in Iran. Since the 1960s, Pahlavi has implemented a pro-Western "liberalization" policy in Iran, implementing land reform, liberating women and weakening religious power. However, his reform measures were strongly opposed by religious upper-level forces led by Khomeini. After the conflict between the two sides intensified, Khomeini was exiled by the Pahlavi dynasty and went into exile abroad. From then on, religious leaders and secular monarchs formed an indelible enemy. In addition, Pahlavi was very fond of merit and implemented radical economic policies in China, and the construction was too large and the results were very small. As a result, the inflation of and the domestic economy became increasingly difficult.
is facing a domestic tension caused by economic difficulties and religious conflicts. Not only does Pahlavi not only does not try to ease social conflicts, but instead implements high-pressure policies and cruelly suppresses those who dissent, which has caused complaints from the people. This accumulated dissatisfaction and hatred gradually evolved into various waves of opposing the king, and eventually destroyed the Pahlavi dynasty. Due to Pahlavi's close relationship with the United States, in the minds of most Iranians, the king is the US agent in Iran. They hate both the king and the United States. Especially after Pahlavi left, the people in Iran will vent their anger against the Pahlavi dynasty on the United States. At present, the US government openly allows the abolished king to go to his country to treat his illness, which is tantamount to the anger of anti-American sentiment. To this end, the Iranian government has twice raised strong protests to the US government on Pahlavi's visit to the United States. Soon, this kind of government protests turned into large-scale mass demonstrations.
