How It Really Happened Season 9 Episode 3 - Iran Hostages: The Dangerous Journey Home

Airdate: 2024-Nov-24

Episode summary:

When Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, they took the Embassy staff hostage and held them for 444 days. Only a handful managed to escape, but they were trapped in Iran until the CIA came up with a daring plan to bring them home. This top-secret mission was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film Argo. In this episode, several former hostages detail their time in captivity, and three of the Tehran Six escapees tell of their daring rescue. 

About How It Really Happened series:

How It Really Happened delves deeply into some of the most notorious crimes, mysteries, trials, and celebrity tragedies of our time.