Iran Hostage Crisis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...shahs admission (Sept., 1979) to the United States for medical treatment, a crowd of about 500 seized the embassy. Of...Iranian detention; the agreement gave Iran immunity from lawsuits arising from the incident. In 2000 former hostages and their...state-sponsored terrorism. The following year they won the lawsuit by default when Iran did not offer a defense. The U.S...