Video: Hostages & Hostage Takers Speak

Behnam.sezavar
by Behnam.sezavar
01-Apr-2008
 

Former American Hostages and Iranian Hostage Takers recollecting their experiences of the incident. The "Iran hostage crisis" was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 U.S. diplomats were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of students took over the American embassy in support of Iran's revolution.

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Re: Gluttons

by Hesam (not verified) on

No Mr. Issapour, not all Americans are wonderful people. The same wonderful people just massacred 1,000,000 Iraqis and Afghans. Yes there are good Americans out there but there are the same if not more great Iranians out there too. The fact that you call you own people primitive shows your own self-respect.
These primitive people are the basis of all the civilization you see on Earth. Now 30 years after the unfortunate class took over suddenly Iranians are no good?
The hostages were taken because the last time our country elected a good leader, Mr. Mosaddegh, America, through US embassy in Iran, furnished and funded a coup and overthrew Mosaddegh. So you may think you know something they didn't know but that's where you're wrong.
These "innocent" embassy employees confessed to sending Iran's secret information to US and Israel against international laws against spying, their shreded files are published and it's well documented.
In America anyone arrested for spying is sentenced to 20 years to life or executed if their spying caused loss of life, so they should be thankful that they got arrested by kind and compassionate Iranians not Russians, Koreans or Chinese.
Instead of glorifying everything Americans do and putting your own countrymen down think clearly and see why everything happened and who is really to blame.
Trust me, when and if you think clearly you'll see that most of Iranians' problems came from those who didn't appreciate what they had and those who were not patriotic enough to think of Iran as the best country on Earth.


Darius Kadivar

Khak to Saret Massoumeh ! ...

by Darius Kadivar on

Services Provided ?

Khanoum Vice President :Massoumeh Ebtekar

//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3053145.stm 

Ugly Hypocritical Frustrated Bitch ! She hated America cause she was not happy in US schools and couldn't cope with the Freedom she had and turned a Revolutionary.

She is the type of person who would put her teachers in jail because she got a Bad school grade or was punished for not doing her homework.

Hope she ends up in Guantanamo !

Truly Fed Up with these so called excuses to justify "Their glorious revolution !"

Suppressed Society my Foot !

Even Mossadegh would turn in his grave if he heard them speak !

ANN TELECTUAL But Certainly NOT Intellectual

Vaghan Khak too Saret va doostaneh Khar va Olaget who were more concerned by the Palestinian Cause than their own countrymen and country woman and their predicaments because of your little childish frustrations.

Thanks to people like you we had our 8 year War and 30 years of Radical Islam when in fact the Revolution could have taken a Very different course if you and your MKO friends now turned Enemies had kept away from politics.

Badbakhteh Mehdi Bazargan who had to deal with nitwits like you. Too Bad he and the moderate revolutionaries were too weak and naive to predict the consenquences of your irresponsible Actions !

Services Provided ? Some of these American Hostages were married to IRanians and had a great respect for Iranian culture and people and you were simply seeing them as a bunch of James Bond Like Spies.

Totally Idiotic mentality which you continue to thrive upon Khanoum Vice President !

Goh Reedin beh Melat.


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They want to go back because

by Naderi (not verified) on

They want to go back because pre-hostage taking
they had all had a wonderful time in Iran!
They knew a lot of friendly wonderful people and they had friends there.
Plus they had a lot of extra privileges, made great money and didn't have to pay Taxes.

At the time I knew quite a few Americans in Iran.


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Gluttons

by Issapour (not verified) on

The Americans are a wonderful people. Yet, they are a glutton for punishment with very short memories.
Why they would want to go back to that primitive, backward country populated by people with no self-respect is beyond me!


Abarmard

Why do they want to go back to Iran?

by Abarmard on

It's the most interesting thing, that all the hostages are waiting to visit Iran again. I would never want to go to a place where I have a horrible memory. Looking from an Iranian historical point of view, that's a civilized nation!


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Iran treated them humanely!

by Iran Humanely (not verified) on

The guy in the video Bruce told Stephen Kinzer:

He said, “I had been sitting in my solitary cell as a hostage for about a year, when one day the cell door opens, and there is standing one of the hostage takers, one of my jailers. And all of my rage and my fury built up over one year sitting in that cell just burst out, and I started screaming at him, and I was telling him, ‘You have no right to do this! This is cruel, this is inhumane! These people have done nothing! This is a violation of every law of god and man! You cannot take innocent people hostage!’” He said, “I went on like this for several minutes. When I was finally out of breath, the hostage taker paused for a moment, and then he leaned into my cell and said, in very good English, ‘You have no right to complain, because you took our whole country hostage in 1953.’”

And that sums it up. Botom line is we Iranains didnt TORTURE any American, but they would have if given the chance. Look at what they do to Muslims in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Let's be fair and give credit to Iranians here.