Iran Hostage Crisis

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  1/7/20
  

  In 1980, a 34-year-old Donald Trump said the US should invade Iran in response to the hostage crisis

  According to historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman, as cited by Brookings, this was Trump's first known comment on US foreign policy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/4/19
  

  How the PLO served U.S. interests during the Iranian hostage crisis

  by Jørgen Jensehaugen

  Open communication and negotiation can produce concrete benefits.

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• 11-27-16
  

  The Case of Xenophobic Hysteria Almost Nobody Remembers

  by Matthew Shannon

  It’s what happened to Iranians in the US during the Hostage Crisis. Now’s the time to remember it.