LOL...the sad thing is, those people were there for 444 days. Ronald Reagan’s presence in the White House brought them back.
Seems like yesterday.
Let’s not forget that they were released on Reagan’s inauguration day in 1981. The Iranians were afraid Reagan would annihilate them.
Subsequently, they were further emboldened when the Hizbollah suicide bomber killed 281 Marines in Lebanon and the US (under Pres. Reagan) pulled the rest of its troops out of Lebanon.
I agree, allowing the Shah to fall and for Iran to fall into the hands of the mullahs was the seminal event in our sad US foreign policy in the Middle East.