books.google.com - On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American...http://books.google.com/books/about/Guests_of_the_Ayatollah.html?id=Mb7-B6FLGrcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGuests of the Ayatollah
