http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-hostage-crisis/http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/country/iran/america-relations.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/790877.stm
U.S and Iran relations.
The U.S. and Iran have a difficult relationship. They used to be allies, but now the U.S. thinks that Iran supports terrorism and is making nuclear weapons. On November 4, 1979, angry Iranian people took more than 60 Americans hostage after they took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. They were kept hostage for 444 days and they were released as soon as Ronald Regan became president. During Carter's presidency, he tried to help the hostages. There was a rescue mission called Desert 1, but they had to stop it because 3 of the helicopters weren't working. In 2002 Bush called Iran an "axis of evil".
I think that Iran is dangerous and I think that the U.S. needs to find out for sure what they are doing over there. I think it was dumb that those people just took the Americans hostage and then let them go right as Regan became president.
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