French former hostage Louis Arnaud shared his two-year ordeal in Iran's Evin Prison in an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24's Stuart Norval. Arnaud, a banking consultant, had been sentenced to ...

Kennedy Jr., a captive in the Iranian hostage crisis under President Jimmy ... in national and international politics. A ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: There has been the startling new development in the Iran hostage crisis. That U.S. attempt to launch a military rescue of the American ...

The hostage crisis had its origins in the Islamic Revolution, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, that toppled Iran’s monarchy ... He ordered a military rescue attempt in April 1980, but the ...

Rocky Sickmann was a 22-year-old US Marine stationed at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran, when he and 51 other Americans were taken hostage by ... for his relentless attempt to bring them ...

Sickmann’s work honors the eight service members who died when military aircraft collided in the aborted Iran hostage rescue attempt in April 1980. He’s carried the eight with him ever since ...

They had been seized at the U.S. embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, in protest of President Jimmy Carter allowing the Shah of Iran admission into ... a daring but failed rescue mission on April 4, 1980 ...

This is a tragedy for justice." It’s a display of hostage diplomacy - a strategy experts describe as a centrepiece of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign policy approach. Dara Conduit is a ...