On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages during the Iranian hostage crisis. During the Iranian Revolution, Mohammad Reza Shah,…
The younger crowds may not remember a time when eating a bag of pistachios meant dealing with your fingertips and lips being dyed red for a short time afterward. This…
One of the Central Intelligence Agency’s biggest intelligence coups (without instigating a real coup) came in Tehran in 1980. While every westerner was scrambling to escape Iran in the days…
Forty years ago, a two-day, American rescue mission launched on April 24 to free the hostages held by Iran in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. For John Limbert, who was held hostage for more than a year during his role as a diplomat in the U.S. Embassy i…