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The Iran Hostage crisis represents much more than the capture of US embassy staff in retaliation for Carter letting the Shah come to the U.S.; but a profound shift in US and global politics. It started a set of events that completely transformed the U.S. politically, Iran’s neighborhood (Central Asia, And Arabia), resulted in the consolidation of the Mullah’s regime in Tehran, and affected the lives of virtually everyone in the world in some shape of form.  

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