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The American Embassy in Tehran is in the hands
of Muslim students tonight. They're holding hostages one report says as many as a hundred most of them American. Here was not an embassy,
it was a CIA center
of Muslim students tonight. They're holding hostages one report says as many as a hundred most of them American. Here was not an embassy,
it was a CIA center
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The American Embassy in Tehran is
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in the hands
of Muslim students tonight.
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They're holding hostages
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one report says as many as a hundred
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most of them American.
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Here was not an embassy,
it was a CIA center.
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Movie Summary
November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour sit-in to protest imperialism, turned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 44...
