Why did militants seize the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979?

A) The Carter administration had threatened war if the oil embargo wasn’t lifted immediately.
B) The Carter administration had seized insurgents the week before and refused to release them.
C) The Carter administration refused to end American involvement in Nicaragua.
D) President Carter publicly denounced their Ayatollah’s revolution.
E) Carter had allowed the exiled shah to seek medical treatment in the United States.


Answer: E

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