Forty-six years ago today, on November 4, 1979 (September 15, 1979), Iran took the United States hostage. Iran's "revolutionary youth" occupied the US embassy on November 4, 1979. With the support of Khomeini, Iranian students occupied the US embassy in Iran and detained 52 embassy personnel in order to force the US government to extradite the former Iranian Shah Pahlavi in exile in the United States. The United States refused, and the relationship between the two countries was in crisis. After a group of Iranian students occupied the US embassy in Iran, others occupied the British embassy in Iran on the 5th; they did not withdraw until shortly before midnight. In Shiraz and Tabriz in northwestern Iran, students also seized two American consulates that were closed after the revolution led by Iran's religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. Hours before the students seized the British embassy, Iran's state radio broadcast a statement by Ayatollah Khomeini accusing Britain of harbouring Bakhtiar, Iran's last prime minister when the shah fell. The British embassy earlier issued a statement denying that Bakhtiar was in Britain. In the conversation, Khomeini affirmed the Iranian youths' occupation of the American embassy and the holding of some embassy personnel as hostages. He said it was because they had seen the shah plunder the country for five decades, killing so many people, and they were indignant that the United States had given sanctuary to the fallen shah. He asked the United States to extradite the king and Britain to Iran. "If they don't hand over these two traitors, or at least drive them out of their country, we're going to take a different course of action," he said. According to sources from Washington, a State Department spokesperson, Hodin Carter, was asked: How did the U.S. government respond to the demands of the Iranian students who occupied the U.S. Embassy? Hodin Carter said: "The answer is: no." He said the U.S. government's position is that the king has been allowed to come to the United States for cancer treatment for an undetermined period of time, but will not agree to his long-term stay in the United States. In London, a British Foreign Office spokesperson also denied accusations that Britain had sheltered former Iranian Prime Minister Bakhtiar. "As far as we know, the former prime minister is currently living in Paris," the spokesperson said. The Iranian government has also abrogated certain provisions of a treaty Iran signed with the United States in 1959 and a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in 1921. The United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran in April 1980. On April 25 of the same year, the United States sent planes into Iran to try to rescue the hostages by force. After the incident, the international community paid great attention. After Algeria brokered, in 1981, the United States and Iran made concessions and reached an agreement on the release of the hostages. Iran released all the hostages. Iranian "revolutionary youth" occupied the Muslims of the US embassy in New York and surrounded the hospital that treated King Pahlavi