Jerko, typical of you to take credit where your participation was nil among
>a lot of diplomacy. The fact is, the deal was made by us you lunatic. We
>thought the hostages release more important than trying to mount yet a third
>mission with equipment ill-suited to the task. The USA has since learned a
>lot about equipment in dusty desert areas.
>
>Factual Quote:
>
>"In exchange for the unfreezing of 8 billion dollars worth of Iranian assets
>and immunity from lawsuits Iran might have faced, the hostages were to be
>freed. On January 20th, 1981, twenty minutes after President Reagan's
>inaugural address, the hostages were formally released into U.S. custody,
>having spent 444 days in captivity. "
lmfao you sure are smart tex
U GO GIRL
please cite your source i think your in for a SURPRISE
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you unfrooze their ASSSETS...you did not buy them that freed the remaining hostages your 2 seal strikes FOCKED UP.....LMFAO but who RESCUED the ones during the RIOT
CANADA .1 man..... ken taylor
better get a REAL history book not one made with pride in the usa
those are like their cars and everything else they build
JUNK
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U.S. President at the time, Jimmy Carter, immediately appliedeconomic and diplomatic pressure on Iran: oil imports from Iran wereended on November 12, 1979, a number of Iranians in the U.S. wereexpelled (some of whom were unrelated to the crisis or the new Iraniangovernment), and around USD 8 billion of Iranian assets in the U.S.were frozen on November 14, 1979. Carter pledged himself to preservingthe lives of the hostages, but beyond the initial measures he could dolittle.
In February of 1980, the Iranian government issued a set of demands in return for freeing the hostages. They demanded the return of the former Shah to Iran, and certain diplomatic gestures including an apology for prior American actions in Iran (including the U.S.-aided coup against Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953) and a promise to not to interfere in the future.
Shortly after the election, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, such as Abdulkarim Ghuraib, successful negotiations began between the U.S. and Iran. On January 20, 1981, the day of President Reagan's inauguration, the hostages were freed in exchange for the unfreezing of 8 billion dollars worth of Iranian assets and immunity from lawsuits Iran might have faced (the hostages were released minutes after the presidency passed from Carter to Reagan). This added to the nation's celebration of Reagan taking the presidency. They spent 444 days in captivity. The hostages were flown to Frankfurt am Main Air Force Base in West Germany, where they were received by former President Jimmy Carter (as an emissary for the Reagan administration), and from there they took a second flight to Washington, D.C., where they received a hero's welcome.
"WE" bought them out you silly self-righteous ignorant child. But, like all
>sissies, you try to take credit where "WE" told diplomats what to say and
>do. You would take credit for stopping WW2 or the Korean war too with only 1
>diplomat. What a sorry piece of crap you are. Typical pussy coward mentality
>taking credit where none is due. You are a weasel misdirecting coward and
>loudmouth piece of human excrement. And to top it off, you still haven't
>answered your own questions. Typical childish fallacious attack mode. What a
>miserable mental fantasy life you must lead. I'm sure nobody likes you and
>that's why you spam all the boards with nothing else to do.
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Kenneth Taylor, former Canadian ambassador to Iran, lectured on the unprecedented role that Canada played during the hostage crisis. Canada provided fake Canadian passports to six American Foreign Service employees who had escaped from the embassy, and was able to smuggle the Americans out of Iran after 79 days. For the enormous risks taken by Taylor and by the Canadian government, the former ambassador received the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the Order of Canada.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, to Ambassador Kenneth Taylor, a gold medal of appropriate design in recognition of his valiant efforts to secure the safe return of American Embassy officials in Tehran. For such purpose, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to cause to be struck a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. There are authorized to be spent from already appropriated funds not to exceed $20,000 to carry out the provisions of this subsection.
L MFAO h u r c