Fear Of War Narrative Essay

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President Carter lost the election mainly because the Iran-US hostage crisis. Minutes after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, on January 20, 1981, the 52 U.S. hostages held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, were released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis. This was the best thing happened after a long and painful time. The Iranian travel ban was lifted sometime later, in 1981, but my husband and daughter still could not leave Iran because of the Iran-Iraq war. The Iranian government would not allow ing people to leave the country during the

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