Guests of the Ayatollah

smoking

Tom Schaefer and

Victoria Bassiri and

Davis, Rodney

Declaration of Independence

defense attache

Delta Force. See also Beckwith, Charlie; rescue mission

after failed rescue mission

men who made up (Delta “operators”)

weapons

democracy. See also election(s)

demonstrations

closing embassy during

demonstrators. See also hostage takers

leadership

Limbert’s negotiations with

troops open firing on leftist

“We only wish to set-in”

“den of spies.” See also “spies” U.S. embassy as

Denmark

Desert One. See also rescue mission

d’Estaing, Giscard

diplomacy

diplomatic immunity

diplomats

disintegrator. See classified documents and equipment, destruction of Donaldson, Sam

Doyle, Ray

dust storms (haboobs)

Dwyer, Cynthia

Eagle Claw

Easter

Ebadi, Shirin

Ebtekar, Nilufar (“Mary”)

on the American people, background

Barbara Timm and

Daugherty and

Hashemi and

marriage

Hohman and

interrogations

interviews and media appearances

Iran-Iraq war and

Koob, Swift, and

Metrinko and

“October surprise” theory and

Roeder and, on the shah

Takeover in Tehran

Tom Schaefer and

on United States

as vice president

economic sanctions against Iran

EEIs (Essential Elements of Information)

Egypt

Election Day

speculation about secret deal to free hostages before

election(s). See also under Carter days before U.S. presidential, in Iran

electoral primaries

embassy, U.S. in Iran. See also Islamabad, U.S. embassy in bracing itself for the worst

as “den of spies”

documents seized from

guardhouse

history

locking its doors

model of, constructed at CIA “Farm”

number of staff

opening

persons released from

physical description

prior harassment of

professionals stationed at

sections

as source of all evil

as symbol of Western imperial domination

ties with provisional government

today

why the diplomatic mission wasn’t simply asked to leave

in Islamabad

in Pakistan

embassy takeover, See also hostage taking; plan

author of. See Asgharzadeh, Ibrahim

command to begin

goals of

nonviolence of

England. See Britain

Englemann, Bob

Entezam, Amir

escape attempts

escape contemplated by hostages

Sheikh-ol-eslam, Hussein “Gaptooth”

Ahern and

brother

Daugherty and

final words to hostages

Ghotbzadeh and

Golacinski and

Hohman and