Video: 'CBS Sunday Night News open - 1979-11-04 - U.S. embassy taken'

(Sunday, November 4, 1979, 6:30 a.m. Iran Standard Time) — The Iran hostage crisis, a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran, began today as a group of Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants.

Video: 'ABC News - America Held Hostage: The Iran Crisis'

Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days until January 20, 1981.

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