Inside the audacious plan to convert a C-130 Hercules into a rocket-assisted Super STOL aircraft capable of landing in a ...
A group of Iranian students charged into the gates and scaled the walls of the US embassy in Tehran on 1979. They took more ...
The Argo mission was a secret CIA operation in 1980 that helped six American diplomats escape from Iran by pretending to be a ...
For 444 days, Iranian militants held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran, leaving emotional scars for them and their loved ones — and dooming Jimmy Carter's presidency.
The Iran Hostage Crisis began just months after the Shah of Iran fled during the Islamic Revolution. When the U.S. allowed him entry for medical treatment in October 1979, it sparked outrage. The ...