Goed nieuws in deze droeve tijden: Former Hostage Taker Of US Diplomats Dies

Karel Martel B · 7 maart 2020, 06:22

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Former Iranian ambassador to Syria and a hostage-taker of U.S. diplomats, Hossein Sheikholeslam, died Thursday from a Covid19 infection, local news outlets report.

An advisor to the Islamic Republic Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, 68-year-old Sheikholeslam was one of the leaders of the so-called "Muslim Student Followers of Imam's Line," who took 52 U.S. diplomats hostage, on November 4, 1979, and released them after 444 days.

https://en.radiofarda.com/a/former-h.../30470975.html