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The United States and Iran broke off diplomatic ties in 1979 when Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran starting a hostage crisis that lasted over a year.
For 444 days 52 American citizens were held captive in the US Embassy after radical students disarmed the guards.
In November 1979, then-President Jimmy Carter signed an executive order freezing all Iranian government assets in the United States and began implementing a host of sanctions on Iran.
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