Iran hostage crisis

Throughout 1980, Iran and the United States engaged in negotiations to end the Iran hostage crisis, which began in November 1979. Iranian demands most notably included the United States' extradition of Iran's former king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been overthrown by the Iranian Revolution before being granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment, though he would later succumb to his illness in Egypt; Pahlavi's asylum in the United States was cited as the reason for the si