White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday invoked the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Here's how the US tried - and ...

As the latest operation unfolds, policymakers and citizens alike confront a familiar tension between decisive action and ...

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. What was expected to last days stretched into 444 humiliating days for the United States.

Long before the open warfare of recent months, the US and Iran have been locked into decades of low-level conflict. Since the ...

After months of humiliation during the Iran hostage crisis, the U.S. attempted a bold rescue mission deep inside hostile ...

A man closely watching the conflict in Iran from his Maryland home escaped the 1979 embassy takeover in Tehran by hiding with ...

The United States and Iran have been adversaries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the hostage crisis at the US embassy ...

Barry Rosen and John Limbert were among 52 people held at the US embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 ...

Dozens of direct or indirect attacks on Americans both militarily and civilian-wise have been carried out or aided by Iran's ...

Between 1953 and 1977, the U.S. and Iran had a mostly cordial relationship. During the 1960s, the U.S. assisted Iran in creating its nuclear program, providing a nuclear reactor and significant ...

The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran’s prime minister in 1953 and the taking of American hostages in 1979.

The American Embassy in Tehran, Iran. On that day, in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution that had overthrown the Shah, followers from the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line descended on ...