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Who is taken hostage in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis?

1) Iranian students
2) Chinese tourists
3)Americans from the embassy
4)Iranian leaders

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3) Americans from the embassy

The 1979 Iranian hostage crisis saw to the event that Iranians, hateful of American beliefs, attacked the embassy and was able to detain many American citizens there, taking them as hostages in an effort to stop the US from sending the Iran leader or 'Shah' back home

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