During the Carter administration, Iranian students seized the American embassy in Tehran—and 53 American hostages—to begin a standoff that lasted until Ronald Reagan’s inauguration 444 days later. What factors prompted that act of terrorism? This ABC News program anchored by Peter Jennings examines the consequences of an American foreign policy shaped more by a desire to protect an oil-dependent standard of living and oppose communist expansion than to promote democracy. (73 minutes)

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