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 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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Bob deRochemont told The Sun in 2021 that the main reason behind his messages posted outside National Vacuum was to make ...

The U.S. has imposed sanctions and trade embargoes on Tehran since the countries severed ties in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Iran hostage crisis. As a theocratic state ...

While the world fixates on Iran’s nuclear ambitions or internet controls, a quieter and deadlier threat has been unfolding for decades: water scarcity. This crisis is not simply about drought but the ...

Later that year, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah’s extradition and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the ...

The statements, delivered in front of cameras and supporters, reflected growing anguish over the government’s handling of the hostage crisis and mounting fears for the captives’ survival.

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 ...