PLEASE HELP!: Was Nixon the one who let Iran’s old leader into America for cancer treatment?
asked: That’s one of the reasons for the Iranians taking a bunch of Americans hostage in 1979.
Was it Nixon who did the cancer treatment thing?
PLEASE HELP
No it was Jimmy Carter
Nixon had resigned years earlier
Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth President of the United States (1977-1981).
The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran in February 1979 and whipped popular discontent into rabid anti-Americanism. When the Shah came to America for cancer treatment in October, the Ayatollah incited Iranian militants to attack the U.S. On November 4, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun and its employees taken captive.