Takeover in Tehran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U. S. Embassy Capture
In this first-ever insider account of the American Embassy takeover in 1979, Massoumeh Ebtekar sets out to correct 20 years of misrepresentation by the Western media of what the aims of the Iranian students and the populist revolution they personified were, and have since remained.\ She also explains, in considerable detail, how one faction of the Shi’a clerical establishment came to see (with the eager complicity of the international media and its own pro-Western political agenda) these...
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Chronology9Foreword15Preface25Introduction31Chapter IIn the Beginning39Chapter IICapturing the Idol's Den65Chapter IIISettling In79Chapter IVSorting Out the Documents97Chapter VNegotiation Impossible117Chapter VIHostages and Students--Life on the Inside139Chapter VIIMedia Wars167Chapter VIIIWithin the Walls193Chapter IXDelta Force Down210Chapter XSettlements, Concessions and Safe Delivery221Epilogue237Appendix A244Appendix B245Appendix C246Notes247
