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Article: Those were the days; Iran and the American hostage crisis.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2006
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As the United Nations debates Iran's nuclear ambitions, those involved could do worse than read about an earlier round of Iran v the West
MARK BOWDEN, whose 1999 bestseller, "Black Hawk Down", chronicled one ill-fated clash between American soldiers and Muslim renegades in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has turned in his new book to another confrontation, one that humiliated America and destroyed President Jimmy Carter's hopes for a second term in office: the intractable stand-off more than 25 years ago in which 66 Americans were held hostage for 444 days byIslamic revolutionary students.
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