Those radical Iranian students took those American diplomats hostage because they were afraid that U.S. officials were conspiring to return their brutal dictator, the Shah of Iran, to power in Iran. That’s what their revolution was all about it — ousting the Shah from power and making sure he couldn’t be returned to power by the U.S. government.
https://www.fff.org/2019/11/05/washington-post-obtuseness-on-the-u-s-deep-state/
