Iran hostages the dangerous journey home How It Really Happened with Hill Harper : Season 9 Episode 3
TV-PG CNN 42m int(0)
Airs: November 24th, 2024 @ 9:00 PM EST on CNN
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.