Causes of the U.S. Hostage Crisis in Iran: The Untold Account of the Communist Threat
Drawing upon primary documents from various Iranian communists and Islamists, this research paper questions the conventional wisdom that the Islamists' takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 was a grassroots reaction to American policies. The author argues that competition between the Islamists and leftists instead may have been a key driver of the hostage crisis.
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar July 7, 2017
