Both sides of the Iranian hostage crisis

Ayatollah Khomeini
Portrait taken in February 1979 in Tehran, Iran, of the Islamic Revolution's leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Photo credit: GABRIEL DUVAL/AFP/Getty Images

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