The Role of Imam Khomeini in the Management of Hostages Crisis at US Espionage Den

Capturing the American Embassy in Tehran by "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line" is one of the turning points of 32-yearhistory of Iranian Islamic Revolution. Imam Khomeini managed this crisis and changed it to a historical fortune for the country and Islamic Revolution and because of deep effects of this historical event in Iran,region and the world we are about to review this subject in this article. We have tried to analyze the trend of developments considering the centrality of Imam and his management based on the memoirs of people who had key roles in this event. The main trend of this article is based on a theory that Imam had no role in the design and capturing the US embassy in Tehran, however just at the beginning of this challengewhen being informed of the attempt by students, he tried to use this event as a historical fortune to stabilize the Islamic Revolution; the event that could lead the country to a war.