Author Question: Why did Iranian students invade and seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding 54 Americans hostage ... (Read 39 times)

Engineer · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Why did Iranian students invade and seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding 54 Americans hostage on November 4, 1979?

a. They wanted to force President Carter to revoke his executive order that had frozen Iranian assets in all American banks.
b. They demanded the return of the shah, who was in the United States being treated for cancer, in exchange for the hostages.
c. They wanted to force the United States to use its influence with Saddam Hussein and convince the Iraqis to agree to a ceasefire in the war with Iran.
d. They wanted the U.S. to close all military bases in the Middle East, especially the Kuwaiti base which was considered a direct threat to Iraq.

Question 2

What policies were implemented by the Ayatollah Khomeini when he became supreme leader of Iran in 1979?

a. a desire to rely on secular principles, specifically rejecting the idea of the creation of an Islamic state based upon the Quran
b. a deepened reliance on the West and a suspicion of Russia because of its support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War
c. nationalization of Iranian industry and the Islamicization of the legal and educational systems
d. isolationism and withdrawal from the international community and a redistribution of wealth to the nation's poor