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If one were ask why there is a broken diplomatic relationship between Iran and the United States, the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 explains everything. This was a situation where a country retaliated against the interventionist policies of America in order to gain independence. One may believe that Americans handled the situation real well, because U.S got the hostages back with no harm done. However, nothing could be further from the truth. When Iranian students, who were discontent with the U.S’s support of Shah Reza Pahlavi, invaded the U.S embassy, the Carter Administration reacted poorly against, resulting in a failed attempt at rescuing the hostages. Even though the crisis was resolved peacefully due to economic and political woes in Iran, Iran had won a battle of foreign policy because of U.S’s overreaction to the crisis. The Iran Hostage Crisis was led by a group of Iranian college students, who were riled up by the revolution that was taking place in Iran after the overthrow of Shah Reza Pahlavi, who placed himself as an absolute over Iran with the support of the U.S. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, ruled Iran the leader of the revolution, despised the Shah and the U.S interventionist policies on Iran, and overthrew the Shah in February 1979. The U.S did not support the revolution and the overthrow of the Shah, but did not take any drastic actions against Iran revolutionaries. In the eve of the crisis, U.S admitted Pahlavi into the county to treat a malady at the same time a “meeting between liberal Prime Minister Medhi Bargazan, and President Carter’s National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski” (Jahanpour 34) took place. To Khomeini, the coincidence of these two events led him to believe that U.S was planning a re-installment of Shah Pahlavi as the leader of Iran. The revolutionaries had an extremely negative perception of U.S foreign policies and interventions, because in the past, the U.S aided the Shah in assuming full power over Iran. The location in which the embassy was situated in only served to initiate the crisis.