1979 Iranians seized US hostages, as student followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini sent shock waves across the US when they stormed the US Embassy in Tehran. The radical Islamic fundamentalists took some ninety hostages, fifty-two of whom were held for 444 days. Enraged that the deposed Shah had been allowed to enter the US for medical treatment, the students threatened to murder the hostages if any rescue was attempted. Days later, the Iranian government fell, and the Ayatollah took full control of the country, and the fate of the hostages

I remember all this. It was horrible what happened during that whole siege. To the hostages and especially to women.