Analysis Of 444 Days Of Insecurities
444 Days of Insecurities
“ Death to the Shah! Death to the Shah” the Islamic revolutionaries protested loudly in front of the Us embassy in Tehran, Iran. On November 4th, 1979, 60 American hostages were captured by the furious revolutionary protesters. Being seized by the mob, the hostages lived with their freedom and privacy deprived. Even though this historical crisis has ended in 1981, it remains as one of the highly discussed issues among historians and politics today.
It all started In the year 1951. A British company, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company began to interfere with the oil industry of Iran. It was the first foreign company to extract petroleum from southwestern Iran. Even though the AIOC was at that time Iran’s …show more content…
That was a long and tedious process until he came to somebody who had called his source in the State Department. The person confirmed the truth that some US diplomats in Tehran had managed to escape the takeover and were hiding. Poltrea discovered that around 6 to 14 employees were sheltered by a friendly embassy but he still didn’t know where In Tehran they were. By mid december, John Poltrea talked to an official at the Canadian embassy in Washington about the hostage crisis saying that he knew the American diplomats were hiding in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran. He was asked not to publish this news for the hostages’ lives were at stake. He agreed to do so. By January 1980, the situation weighed heavily on the house guests. They got together and asked the Canadians diplomats to pass to the State Department about their current situation. The six American embassy staff felt that so much time had passed but their problem was now a separate one from the rest of the hostages for a variety of reasons. They believed some serious
“ Death to the Shah! Death to the Shah” the Islamic revolutionaries protested loudly in front of the Us embassy in Tehran, Iran. On November 4th, 1979, 60 American hostages were captured by the furious revolutionary protesters. Being seized by the mob, the hostages lived with their freedom and privacy deprived. Even though this historical crisis has ended in 1981, it remains as one of the highly discussed issues among historians and politics today.
It all started In the year 1951. A British company, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company began to interfere with the oil industry of Iran. It was the first foreign company to extract petroleum from southwestern Iran. Even though the AIOC was at that time Iran’s …show more content…
That was a long and tedious process until he came to somebody who had called his source in the State Department. The person confirmed the truth that some US diplomats in Tehran had managed to escape the takeover and were hiding. Poltrea discovered that around 6 to 14 employees were sheltered by a friendly embassy but he still didn’t know where In Tehran they were. By mid december, John Poltrea talked to an official at the Canadian embassy in Washington about the hostage crisis saying that he knew the American diplomats were hiding in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran. He was asked not to publish this news for the hostages’ lives were at stake. He agreed to do so. By January 1980, the situation weighed heavily on the house guests. They got together and asked the Canadians diplomats to pass to the State Department about their current situation. The six American embassy staff felt that so much time had passed but their problem was now a separate one from the rest of the hostages for a variety of reasons. They believed some serious