By: Ardis E. Parshall - May 17, 2016 I remember the 444 days that American Embassy personnel were held hostage by student revolutionaries in Tehran, Iran, in 1979-1981.  I remember little things about that episode: We had two Iranian students in my Russian class at BYU, one of whose brothers had a role in the embassy takeover; I remember Reza’s concern about how we would react to that. I remember that Canadian diplomats smuggled six A...
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