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Iran Hostage Crisis Anniversary

In part one of a three part series looking back on the Iran hostage crisis NPR's Ted Clark reports that twenty years ago this week, Iranian students stormed the U.S embassy in Tehran. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days.

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