believe the show was sick. they had another more sinister theory there was a big fear among the revolutionaries that the united states and the shaw might try to pull another coup a coup that would involve the us placing the shop back in power and putting an end to the revolution iranian students took over the us embassy in tehran to look for direct proof of the american plot. and to demand that the us extradite the show to stand trial for what they considered worth his crimes against the iranian people and if president carter does not release the show yes, white fight nearly six months into the hostage crisis. the us launched operation eagle claw a covert mission to rescue the 52 hostages which
would act this way but to iran taking the hostages was completely rational, given the history that led up to that moment. in november 1979, iranian students stormed the us embassy in tehran turning it into a prison for american embassy staff the gang revolutionary spent months in the embassy these basement trying to piece together evidence of past american misdeeds why because decades earlier that basement was where american and british spies had plotted a coup against what had long been a close ally you re on and the us from 18, 50 to 1950 had the best relations. the man seen here shaking hands with president harry truman in 1951, was iran s