How It Really Happened - Season 9 Episode 3 Iran Hostages: The Dangerous Journey Home
When Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, they took the Embassy staff hostage and held them for 444 days. Only a handful managed to escape, but they were trapped in Iran until the CIA came up with a daring plan to bring them home. This top-secret mission was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film Argo. In this episode, several former hostages detail their time in captivity, and three of the Tehran Six escapees tell of their daring rescue.
- Genre: Crime, Mystery, Documentary
- Studio: CNN, HLN
- Keyword: murder, true crime, murder mystery, infamous
- Cast:
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