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Yes but still you could have kicked them out but not storming their embassy like savages. Also acting like thugs is not the way to negotiate people hated you more than they sympathizing with you.
Pardon me if my post offend Iranians friends here, and please do correct me if my speculation is wrong:
Imo, the Iran Hostage Crisis is one of the key how Ayatollah Khomeini win the political power struggle.
Before Iranian Revolution in 1979, Anglo-Saxon has successfully installed Pahlavi dynasty as proxy to control Iran. Pahlavi dynasty heavily relied on US and UK, the survival of regime was in US and UK's hand. Iran is the front-line of cold war which is very important to US and UK. Many Iranians especially those who benefited from US-Iran relationship were pro US and UK.
During Iran Hostage Crisis, US-Iran foreign relationship was completely screwed up. The crisis strengthened Ayatollah Khomeini followers's political stance and those who pro US and UK were oppressed successfully. Imo, it's the turning point of Iranian Revolution, it helps Ayatollah Khomeini win the political power struggle.
The US, UK and France completely misjudged Ayatollah Khomeini's political will. If you read memoirs of William H. Sullivan(Ambassador to Iran) - "Mission to Iran" and telegraph text between Sullivan and Zbigniew Brzezinski, they misunderstood the situation badly.
The price is so high, I think it's one of the top three mistakes of US foreign policy. The first one is made by Douglas MacArthur and President Harry S. Truman on Korean peninsula. The second one is Vietnam War.
"Mission to Iran" https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/669967.Mission_To_Iran ,
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