CBS News - Iran hostage crisis - 1979-11-04
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[0:06] this is the CBS Sunday night news with
[0:09] Ed Bradley
[0:10] good evening in Tehran tonight the
[0:13] American Embassy is in the hands of
[0:14] several hundred Iranian students who
[0:16] took control after a three-hour Skirmish
[0:18] with U.S Marines they are holding
[0:20] hostages one report says as many as a
[0:23] hundred most of them American and are
[0:25] demanding that the exiled Shah of Iran
[0:27] now undergoing cancer treatment at a New
[0:29] York Hospital the return to stand trial
[0:31] we have a report from Diane Sawyer in
[0:34] Washington
[0:36] Tehran when the mob of students
[0:43] to the crowd with tear gas but was
[0:45] vastly outnumbered the demonstrators
[0:47] burned the American flag blindfolded and
[0:50] handcuffed at least some of their
[0:51] American hostages and paraded them in
[0:53] front of the embassy building CBS News
[0:55] reached one of the demonstrators by
[0:57] telephone who outlined the student
[0:59] demands
[1:11] in Washington a special State Department
[1:13] task force convened officials stressed
[1:16] the peaceful nature of the incident so
[1:17] far and said the head of the U.S embassy
[1:19] in Iran who was not in the building at
[1:21] the time of the Takeover has been
[1:23] assured that the Iranian government will
[1:25] do its best to resolve the matter but a
[1:27] spokesman at the Iranian Embassy here
[1:29] said U.S government officials have only
[1:31] themselves to blame
[1:34] we told them that if the Shah comes to
[1:36] the United States no matter what there
[1:39] will be a serious reaction in Iran
[1:42] because hundreds of thousands of
[1:45] families
[1:46] have been hurt by him
[1:48] who has been supported by the United
[1:51] States government for all these years
[1:53] later this afternoon se