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Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation

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Duration: 9 minutes

Mon 4^th Nov 2019, 08:50 on BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

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On November 4th 1979 revolutionary students overran the US Embassy in Iran and took everyone inside hostage. In 1980 the students invited a humanitarian delegation to visit them. Show more

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