30 years later, Tehran hostage can’t forget

The World

Thursday marks 30 years since the release of 52 American hostages who were held in the US embassy in Tehran for 444 days by a group of Iranian students and militants. Barry Rosen was one of those hostages. He worked as a press attache in the embassy in Tehran, and he says the anniversary of his release remains fixed in his mind. “I have to remember it,” Rosen says. “If I had a place to go, I would go and stand there. But I don’t have a place to go.”

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