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Middle Chamber Books Podcast #34: 'The Houseguests,' the true story behind the blockbuster Ben Affleck movie, "Argo"
Mark Lijek, author of "The Houseguests," a book about his experience hiding with the Canadians in Iran. Mark's escape with his wife Cora and four colleagues from the US Embassy is dramatized in the current Ben Affleck movie, "Argo."
In November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed and captured the US Embassy in Teheran.
Angered by the US Government decision to permit the former Shah of Iran to enter the US for cancer treatment, they held US diplomats hostage for more than a year.
Unknown to the revolutionaries, six American embassy staffers in another building on the grounds were able to…
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