{"id":216059,"date":"2025-01-15T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/gaza-hostage-deal-could-come-as-trump-takes-office-in-echoes-of-1981\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:49:15","slug":"gaza-hostage-deal-could-come-as-trump-takes-office-in-echoes-of-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/gaza-hostage-deal-could-come-as-trump-takes-office-in-echoes-of-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Hostage Deal Could Come as Trump Takes Office, in Echoes of 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A deal to free Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners could be finalized days before President Donald J. Trump\u2019s inauguration. The scenario is reminiscent of 1981, when American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than a year were freed just as Ronald Reagan became commander in chief.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 20 of that year, Mr. Reagan, just sworn in as president, told members of Congress at a lunch following his inauguration that a 444-day hostage crisis that had consumed the final year of the administration of his predecessor, Jimmy Carter, was finally over. \u201cThey\u2019re now free,\u201d Mr. Reagan said of the captives.<\/p>\n

The hostage crisis had its origins in the Islamic Revolution, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, that toppled Iran\u2019s monarchy in 1979. In October of that year, Mr. Carter decided to allow Iran\u2019s exiled shah to travel to the United States for cancer treatment, angering Iranian revolutionaries.<\/p>\n

The next month, Iranian militants overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized 66 hostages. More than a dozen captives were released early on, leaving 52 diplomats, guards and embassy employees in captivity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n