In the text you read this about the Iran Hostage Crisis: Dyi…
In the text you read this about the Iran Hostage Crisis: Dying of cancer, the Shah fled Iran in January 1979. Fundamentalist Islamic clerics, led by the Ayatollah Khomeini (i yuh TOH luh koh MAYN ee), took power. Carter allowed the Shah to enter the United States to seek medical treatment. Enraged radical Iranian students invaded the U.S. Embassy and took 66 Americans as hostages. The Khomeini government took control of both the embassy and the hostages to defy the United States. Iranian students took Americans hostage probably because