Iranian students loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini storm the American embassy in Tehran, taking 52 hostages. Khomeini had condemned the United States for supporting the deposed Iranian ruler, Shah Reza Pahlavi, and for accepting his entrance to the United States to undergo cancer treatment.
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