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Do you remember: Iran in turmoil: November 11 1979.
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Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
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November 3, 2001
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MILITANT Iranian students paraded American hostages after seizing the US embassy in Tehran. The overthrow of Muhammed Reza Shar Pahlevi earlier in the year had led to a steady deterioration in Iran-US relations. On November 4, a 500-strong crowd seized the embassy in protest over the exiled shah's admission to America for medical treatment. Fifty-two people were held throughout the crisis wh...
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Do you remember: Iran in turmoil: November 11 1979.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
; MILITANT Iranian students paraded American hostages after seizing the US embassy in Tehran. The overthrow of Muhammed Reza Shar Pahlevi earlier in the year had led to a steady deterioration in Iran-US relations. On November 4, a 500-strong crowd seized the embassy in protest over the exiled shah's
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