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Barry Rosen: 444 Days as a Hostage in Iran
Barry Rosen was serving as press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when, on November 4, 1979, the embassy was seized and he was taken hostage.
He would spend 444 days in captivity.
In this deeply personal conversation, Barry takes us far beyond the headlines of the Iran hostage crisis. He talks about the person he was before that day: a young man from Brooklyn, raised in a close family, drawn to the wider world through the Peace Corps and later the Foreign Service, and someone who developed a genuine affection for Iran, its people and its culture.
He describes the moment the embassy was…
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