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Switzerland Iran Hostage Taking Message Usa, 1980 (b/w photo)

Switzerland Iran Hostage Taking Message Usa, 1980 (b/w photo)
airport
embassy
America-(continent)
plane
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coffin
USA
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America
iran
tehran
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CAFFINE
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drama
Hostage-drama
kloten
Transferment
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victim
transportation
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airport
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America-(continent)
plane
aircraft
transport
coffin
USA
North-America
hostage
hostages
America
iran
tehran
zurich
CAFFINE
americas
hostage
hostages
drama
Hostage-drama
kloten
Transferment
hostage-taking
victim
transportation
plane
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Switzerland Iran Hostage Taking Message Usa, 1980 (b/w photo)

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Stringer (STR)

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black and white photograph

Date

1980 AD (C20th AD)

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Handing over of the American corpses after the failure of the US military action to free the hostages, taken on May 6, 1980 at Zurich-Kloten airport. Since the occupation of the US embassy building in Tehran by students on 4 November 1979, 66 embassy staff (13 of whom were later released prematurely) have been held host. The USA's futile attempt to free the hostages claimed eight lives in April 1980. The collision between a helicopter and an airplane put an early end to the liberation action. The USA reacted to the hostage-taking with an import ban on Iranian oil, the breaking off of diplomatic relations, and a trade embargo. One day after the conclusion of an Iranian-American agreement, the hostages were released on 20 January 1981 after 444 days.

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