Hostages of the Crisis: Iranian Students in Arkansas, 1979-1981.

The article discusses the hostage taking incident by Iranian demonstrators, mostly students, at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran in November 1979. Also cited are the protest against the U.S. and former Iranian shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the adverse effects of the hostage taking to the lives of Iranian students studying in the U.S., and the actions taken by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to resolve the crisis.