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Iranians cannot forget the US-led coup that overthrew the nationalist Mohammad Mossadegh six decades ago, and Americans remain bitter about the invasion of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, which resulted in more than 50 American diplomats and staff being held hostage for 444 days.

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I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box.

They were holding something like 700 people hostage.

They'd released a bunch of people, but they still had about 700 people hostage.

So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot, by the hostage takers or by the police forces trying to deal with the situation.

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