Twenty-five years ago yesterday, 300 or so angry Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, kicking off a 444-day hostage crisis. It marked the beginning of the struggle between radical Islamism and the West, a struggle that now counts 9/11 and the American invasion of Iraq among its battles.
Among the 52 Americans who were held for those 14 months, there were only two women. One of them was Kathryn Koob, who now teaches communication and religion at Wartburg College in Iowa. Koob was working in a cultural exchange program called the Iran-America society located near the embassy in November of 1979.
In this radio diary, Kathryn Koob remembers how she was abducted and brought to the U.S. Embassy 25 years ago today.
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Kathryn Koob teaches communication and religion at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.
