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L. Bruce Laingen, top US diplomat held in Iran, dies at 96

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L. Bruce Laingen, top US diplomat held in Iran, dies at 96L. Bruce Laingen, the top American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when it was overrun by Iranian protesters in 1979 and one of 52 Americans held hostage for more than a year, has died. Iran was in chaos in 1979, roiled by the departure of the Shah of Iran that January and the return a month later of the revolution’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, a longtime religious leader in exile. The U.S. had supported the shah’s regime and incurred the wrath of Iranian revolutionaries before and after the shah was overthrown.

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