Iran hostage crisis survivor Barry Rosen knows the importance of outlets like VOA. He saw first-hand how they encourage people in autocratic countries to dream of freedom.

Photos: Eerie remnants of the former U.S. embassy, 35 years after Iran hostage crisis Thirty-five years after the Iran hostage crisis, a rare look inside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran.

The Iran Hostage Crisis began just months after the Shah of Iran fled during the Islamic Revolution. When the U.S. allowed him entry for medical treatment in October 1979, it sparked outrage.

The former hostage is survived by four sons and eight grandchildren. The post Captive In The Iran Hostage Crisis Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr. Dies At 93 first appeared on Slingshot News.

Tim Stanley makes a strained comparison between the conflict in Syria and the Iran hostage crisis: But, unless Obama does a U-turn, it’s possible that the bloodshed will drag on and on.

Abbas/ Magnum Photos No American who was alive and alert in the early 1980s will ever forget the Iran hostage crisis. Militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, captured American diplomats and ...

Super Bowl LV marks 40 years since the Iran hostage crisis ended and the released American prisoners were honored at Super Bowl XV in New Orleans. That event was chronicled in the 2015 NFL ...

It's very rare that an issue as critical as this – what, for once, can truly be called ‘a political crisis’ – it's ... cure the crashing headache of Iran. But this has changed, or ...

The hostage crisis between 1979 and 1981 needs to be remembered as a signal of the kind of regime with which we are again negotiating.

The US has imposed sanctions and trade embargoes on Tehran since the countries severed ties in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Iran hostage crisis. As a theocratic state, Iran has ...

Over the 44 years since my release as a hostage of the Iranian regime ... Countries like China, Russia and Iran know that the loss of a trusted source of global information will enhance their ...

The U.S. has imposed sanctions and trade embargoes on Tehran since the countries severed ties in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Iran hostage crisis. As a theocratic state ...