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Speaker 1: Welcome to This Day in History Class from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot Com and from the desk of Stuff you

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Speaker 1: Missed in History Class. It's the show where we explore

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Speaker 1: the past one day at a time with a quick

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Speaker 1: look at what happened today in history. Hello, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson and it's January twenty.

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Speaker 1: The Iran hostage crisis ended on this day in night one,

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Speaker 1: and today is also my last day hosting this show.

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Speaker 1: You'll get to meet the new host, Eve's Jeff Coat

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Speaker 1: at the end of this episode. I am very excited

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Speaker 1: to welcome her to it. The Iranian Revolution, also called

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Speaker 1: the Islamic Revolution, had started in It started with resistance

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Speaker 1: to Iranian monarch Mohammed raised A Shaw Palavi, also known

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Speaker 1: as just the Shaw. The Shaw had very close ties

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Speaker 1: to the United States and was very sympathetic to the

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Speaker 1: United States interests. The US had had a lot of

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Speaker 1: influence over Iran. His rule, though, was also very repressive

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Speaker 1: and authoritarian, including having a secret police force that terrorized

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Speaker 1: Iranian citizens as the revolution spread. The Shaw and his

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Speaker 1: family left Iran on January sixteenth, nineteen seventy nine, under

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Speaker 1: the pretense of going on a vacation, but they never

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Speaker 1: came back again. Ayatolla Rhola Kameni, who had been exiled

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Speaker 1: fourteen years before, returned to Iran and established the Iranian Republic.

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Speaker 1: This was not the end of the tensions, though. The

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Speaker 1: Shaw was diagnosed with cancer and wanted to go to

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Speaker 1: the United States for medical treatment, and his aids said

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Speaker 1: to United States officials that the treatment he needed was

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Speaker 1: only available in the United States. President Jimmy Carter finally

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Speaker 1: agreed to allow this under pressure from other American political leaders.

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Speaker 1: In the Shaw arrived in the United States on October

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Speaker 1: twenty two. This outraged a lot of the protesters in Iran,

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Speaker 1: who wanted him to be extradited back to them. On

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Speaker 1: November fourth, nine, seventy nine Iranian student demonstrators attacked the U.

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Speaker 1: S Embassy in Tehran and they took hostages. Most of

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Speaker 1: these were people who worked at the embassy. This was

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Speaker 1: the start of a hostage crisis that would last more

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Speaker 1: than a year. At first, it was sixty six US

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Speaker 1: citizens who were held hostage, three of them taken from

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Speaker 1: the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The AETOLO later ordered the release

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Speaker 1: of thirteen of the hostages. All of them or women,

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Speaker 1: or black or both, under the argument that they probably

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Speaker 1: weren't spies. That left fifty three hostages remaining. One became

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Speaker 1: really ill and was released on medical grounds, leaving fifty

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Speaker 1: two for the rest of the hostage crisis. These hostages

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Speaker 1: were mistreated, They were beatings, mock executions, and all of

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Speaker 1: this was happening in the embassy complex where most of

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Speaker 1: them had previously been employed. The Iranians wanted the Shaw extradited,

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Speaker 1: and they refused to release the hostages if that happened,

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Speaker 1: So the US froze Iranian as sets in US banks

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Speaker 1: refused to purchase oil from Iran. Resolutions from the U

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Speaker 1: This went on and on. The US cut diplomatic ties

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Speaker 1: and ordered Iranian diplomats to leave the United States. An

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Speaker 1: attempted rescue mission in April of nineteen eighty failed and

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Speaker 1: eight U S service members were killed. Their bodies couldn't

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Speaker 1: be recovered by the US, and they were later shown

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Speaker 1: on Iranian TV to humiliate and taught the United States.

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Speaker 1: The Shaw then died of cancer in Egypt on July

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Speaker 1: seven of nineteen eighty during the nineteen eighty election in

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Speaker 1: the United States, Ronald Reagan used all of this against

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter, and Reagan went on to win that election.

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Speaker 1: Negotiations resumed through middleman from Algeria, and by that point

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Speaker 1: Iran had also installed a new government and had been

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Speaker 1: invaded by Iraq, so sanctions that had been in place

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Speaker 1: were becoming harder and harder for the country to deal with. Finally,

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Speaker 1: there was an agreement to release the hostages in exchange

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Speaker 1: for lifting the sanctions, and those hostages were released almost

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Speaker 1: immediately after Reagan was sworn into office as president. They

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Speaker 1: had been held hostage for four hundred forty four days.

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Speaker 1: Relations between the United States and Iran were strained for

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Speaker 1: decades afterward. Like I set up at the top of

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Speaker 1: the show, today is my last episode of this day

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Speaker 1: in History class. It turned out that doing this many

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Speaker 1: podcasts was a lot. So I'd like to introduce you

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Speaker 1: to your new host, Eve's Jeff Coat. Hi, Eves, Hi Chasey.

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Speaker 1: How are you. I'm doing well? How are you pretty good?

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Speaker 1: So Eves is going to be taking the lead on

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Speaker 1: this show. Do you want to talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, I'm really excited You've covered so many

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Speaker 1: topics so far, and it's just like we have so

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Speaker 1: many more to do throughout the year. I'm really excited

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Speaker 1: to be able to pick up on everything you've done,

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Speaker 1: and we've got some really cool things coming up. We're

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Speaker 1: all are going to be bringing us some special guests

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Speaker 1: from time to time, which will be fun. That sounds awesome.

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Speaker 1: And another reason that I'm happy that you're here is

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Speaker 1: that you already researched something like a quarter of the

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Speaker 1: episodes that we have already done. I know so little

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Speaker 1: about so many things now. Well, I would like to

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