Two additional things worth mentioning about the Iran hostage crisis:
1. It was Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller who convinced Jimmy Carter--against his better judgement--to allow the exiled Shah to come to the US.
2. We now know that in 1980, representatives of Ronald Reagan's campaign secretly went to Tehran and made a deal with the Khomeini government to not release the hostages until after the election.
Two additional things worth mentioning about the Iran hostage crisis:
1. It was Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller who convinced Jimmy Carter--against his better judgement--to allow the exiled Shah to come to the US.
2. We now know that in 1980, representatives of Ronald Reagan's campaign secretly went to Tehran and made a deal with the Khomeini government to not release the hostages until after the election.