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 ...

Retired Sergeant Rocky Sickmann of the U.S. Marine Corps spent 444 days in captivity during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979.

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.

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.

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.

That the talks are even happening represents a historic moment, given the decades of enmity between the two countries.

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 ...

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 ...

The Iran hostage crisis is my first memory of international politics. When the U.S. Embassy was seized in Tehran in 1979, I was in third grade; I would probably not have really been aware of it ...

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 ...