The Iran Hostage Crisis: End to a Presidency
An Ongoing Negotiation, and the End to a Presidency
An Ongoing Negotiation, and the End to a Presidency
Among the many foreign relation events in American History only a few have left the nation in a state of shock and realization of their true enemies overseas. In a time when building a relationship with the Middle East was at the top of American policies, a crisis arose during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. In November 1979 Iranian students took hostage of the United States Embassy in Tehran for 444 days. The shaping of the national agenda and the organizing of the 1980 presidential campaign was drastically altered. At the same time the United States economy was in a recession by a doubling of oil prices, which was closely associated with the crisis. Iran supplied about 65 percent of the world’s exported oil in 1979, if this oil was to stop or prices were dramatically raised it would result in a collapse economically in the West. The year it took to get the hostages released resulted in the failure of Jimmy Carter as a United States president and the lose of his re-election for a second term. Carter allowed the hostage crisis to consume him and to not concentrate on the real matters of winning his re-election and dealing with the other needs of the American people. The Iran hostage crisis proved to be the last event Jimmy Carter would deal with in his time as president. With the international media broadcasting the event everyday, a failed rescue attempt, and a failed attempt to release the hostages sooner, Carter was unable to appeal to the American public as a strong leader. The United States interference within Iran caused major problems inside the Iran government, which later led to the hostage situation of innocent Americans. This caused a blowback in the foreign relation between the United States and Iran, and led to the election of Ronald Reagan.
Before the Iran Hostage Crisis there
An Ongoing Negotiation, and the End to a Presidency
Among the many foreign relation events in American History only a few have left the nation in a state of shock and realization of their true enemies overseas. In a time when building a relationship with the Middle East was at the top of American policies, a crisis arose during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. In November 1979 Iranian students took hostage of the United States Embassy in Tehran for 444 days. The shaping of the national agenda and the organizing of the 1980 presidential campaign was drastically altered. At the same time the United States economy was in a recession by a doubling of oil prices, which was closely associated with the crisis. Iran supplied about 65 percent of the world’s exported oil in 1979, if this oil was to stop or prices were dramatically raised it would result in a collapse economically in the West. The year it took to get the hostages released resulted in the failure of Jimmy Carter as a United States president and the lose of his re-election for a second term. Carter allowed the hostage crisis to consume him and to not concentrate on the real matters of winning his re-election and dealing with the other needs of the American people. The Iran hostage crisis proved to be the last event Jimmy Carter would deal with in his time as president. With the international media broadcasting the event everyday, a failed rescue attempt, and a failed attempt to release the hostages sooner, Carter was unable to appeal to the American public as a strong leader. The United States interference within Iran caused major problems inside the Iran government, which later led to the hostage situation of innocent Americans. This caused a blowback in the foreign relation between the United States and Iran, and led to the election of Ronald Reagan.
Before the Iran Hostage Crisis there
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