On November 4th, 1979, a group of Iranian Revolutionary stormed the American embassy in Tehran, Iran,

and took 66 American diplomats and citizens hostage. Over the next 444 days, the hostage crisis

dominated the news and became the single biggest foreign policy issue for both the United

States and Iran. Even after the crisis

ended, it affected Iranian U.S. relations for the last 45 years. Learn more about the

Iran hostage crisis, its causes, and how it was resolved on this episode of Everything

Everywhere Daily.

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If you weren't alive for it at the time, it would be hard to understand just how important the Iran hostage crisis was when it was unfolding. The crisis dominated the news for over a year. Every single day during

the crisis, every evening news program counted the days since the hostages were taken. People

all across the country tied yellow ribbons to trees outside their homes. It became a dominant

issue in the 1980 election and arguably contributed to the fall of an American presidency.

The hostage crisis wasn't something that happened spontaneously, although it did seem like it at

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