On 4 November 1979, a group of Iranian students occupied the U.S. embassy compound in Tehran and took U.S. diplomats hostage. This event was a major turning point in American-Iranian relations in the period following the Iranian Revolution earlier that...

In August 1976, just before the decisive stage in the presidential election campaign between incumbent Gerald Ford and challenger Jimmy Carter, Iran's ambassador to the United Kingdom wrote in his diary that the Shah of Iran was uneasy about the...

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 U.S. diplomats were held hostage for 444 days from November 4 1979 to January 20 1981, after a group of militants took over of the American embassy in support of...

The seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran 20 years ago this week ignited a bitter political crisis. The fallout still afflicts the United States, Iran, and the Middle East. America's humiliation in Iran helped produce Ronald Reagan's victory over President Carter...

As the United Nations debates Iran's nuclear ambitions, those involved could do worse than read about an earlier round of Iran v the West MARK BOWDEN, whose 1999 bestseller, "Black Hawk Down", chronicled one ill-fated clash between American soldiers and Muslim renegades...

If they weren’t real, many of Mark Bowden’s characters would seem like the creations of a lazy Hollywood scriptwriter crafting roles for Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. He favors men who are gruff and hard-living, honorable but contemptuous of authority. In his fascinating, occasionally frustrating...

If they weren’t real, many of Mark Bowden’s characters would seem like the creations of a lazy Hollywood scriptwriter crafting roles for Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. He favors men who are gruff and hard-living, honorable but contemptuous of authority. In his fascinating, occasionally...

Provides an in-depth review of the Iran hostage crisis.