Iran and the United States severed ties after students seized the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held its diplomats hostage for 444 days.

It has held even diplomats hostage.

There is irony here, since nearly 20 years ago it was Iran that held 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.

America's relations with Iran have been icy since radical students seized Washington's Teheran Embassy in 1979 and held diplomats hostage there for 444 days.

Iran and the United States severed ties after the 1979 Islamic revolution, after students attacked the American Embassy and took its diplomats hostage.

It has plundered Kuwait, terrorized innocent civilians, and held even diplomats hostage.

I remember your President sitting for four hundred or more days while Iranians held American diplomats hostage in Tehran.

Washington broke diplomatic relations with Iran in 1980, months after militants in the new Islamic republic had taken dozens of American diplomats hostage.

It violated international law when it seized the American Embassy in 1979 and held diplomats hostage.

They took more than 200 office workers and several foreign diplomats hostage.