Iran is experiencing a systemic energy crisis. While many times in the past, Iran has had gas shortages or refined product ...

and the one Carter himself describes as causing the darkest days of his time in office came in the last year of his term. What became known as the Iranian hostage crisis began on Nov. 4 ...

On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage, beginning a 444-day crisis that would ... the exiled Shah of Iran, travel to the United ...

The consequences of that crisis reverberate to this day when then-US President Jimmy ... spike by the biggest percentage since the 1991 Gulf War. Iran denies the accusations and has warned that ...

One of the defining moments of Jimmy Carter’s presidency was the Iran hostage crisis. Retired Army Col. Chuck Scott was one of the 52 hostages held in Iran for 444 days. In an interview with ...

The 444-days of the crisis when a newly revolutionary Iran took and held American hostages, coupled with the deaths of eight servicemen in a botched rescue attempt, had begun. In 1980, Russia ...