Ken Taylor: Canadian envoy of Iran crisis fame dies (bbc)

 

The Canadian ambassador who helped six American diplomats escape after the US embassy in Tehran was stormed by Iranian revolutionaries in 1979 has died, his family has said.

Ken Taylor was 81 and died in hospital in New York.

He played a key role in sneaking the diplomats out of Iran using Canadian passports and forged Iranian visas.

The crisis began when revolutionary students stormed the embassy taking about 50 American hostages.