Hidden Lines

On November 4, 1979, Iranian radicals stunned the world by storming the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and taking the entire diplomatic staff hostage. The attackers called themselves the "Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini Line" and claimed the backing of Iran's fiercely anti-American revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Their central demand: that the United States extradite the former Shah to stand trial in Iran-or they would execute their American hostages. This book is my story a...