One day all the Iranians were there in class, then the embassy was taken over and ALL of them were gone the next day.
What you said is true. I observed this also.
However, I many of the radical Iranian students at my school who went back to “join” and “help out” the revolution after the Shah was deposed, were rounded up by Revolutionary Guard & executed.
Seems the mullahs felt they’d absorbed too many western ideas: Jeffersonian democracy, Marxism, m8niskirted