Iranian Hostage Crisis
The American embassy in Tehran made front page news in 1979 when a troop of Islamist students and militants breached the walls and took hostages. The group demanded the release of Shah Pahlavi so that he could face a court for his “crimes against Iranian citizens”. The Shah was dying of cancer in America. It took 444 days until the hostages eventually made it out.
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Gender Equality
When Iran fell in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution, its legal system reverted to Islamic law. The change dropped women onto a lower tier, meaning that they were considered mentally and legally inferior to men. The government has made claims that “gender equality” was a construct created by Zionism.
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Gender Equality
