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    Remembering the Iranian Hostage Crisis
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    "It would be great if Mrs. Clinton would do us a favor and not show us that she is for the Green Movement," says Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first post-revolutionary president. "Even today, in the show trials, they use the United States as an excuse to indict people for trying to start another revolution. Mr. Obama shouldn't use sanctions or threats or military attacks against Iran. The mullahs will say, 'If it wasn't for the sanctions, your lives would be better.'" The students planned to hold the hostages for a few days to make a statement, then release them. Full Article at AOL News
    Even today, in the show trials, they use the United States as an excuse to indict people for trying to start another revolution. Mr. Obama shouldn't use sanctions or threats or military attacks against Iran. The mullahs will say, 'If it wasn't for the sanctions, your lives would be better.'
    SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago
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Remembering the Iranian Hostage Crisis
  1. They weren't screaming, they were just moving around and talking, but you could hear a strange buzz in the air, even inside the embassy
    SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago
  2. A clear violation of international law took place, and there was nothing done about it ... That was the beginning, the emboldening, of radical Islamic terrorism.
    – Charles Scott SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago
  3. It would be great if Mrs. Clinton would do us a favor and not show us that she is for the Green Movement
    SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago
  4. The U.S. made a mistake taking in the shah. People in Iran were very sensitive to this issue. If they had not admitted him, nothing would have happened
    SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago
  5. The consequences of the embassy takeover were disastrous ... We were hoping to get ahead, to gain freedom, and instead we lost everything and went back to the Dark Ages.
    – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago
  6. This was obviously the most exciting moment of his life ... Terrorism gives a lot of unemployed people something exciting to do.
    SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago
  7. It was supposed to be a small, short-term affair. We were just a bunch of students who wanted to show our dismay at the United States. After that, it got out of control
    SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago
  8. It came to a point where no one could say any longer when the hostages could be freed, even after the shah was gone. It became an international affair, with repercussions we hadn't foreseen. We were taken out of the decision-making process. We were basically just hostages of the hostages
    SOURCE: AOL News 1 month ago

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