Canadian who helped Americans during Iranian hostage crisis dies

http - January 6th, 2013

When militant radicals seized the U.S. Embassy in Iran in November 1979, they intended to take all its employees hostage. But five were elsewhere in the embassy compound and escaped capture. After six tense days of furtively moving around Tehran, one of them, Robert Anders, placed a call to a Canadian diplomat with whom he played tennis, and asked for help

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