{"id":45,"date":"2018-06-01T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/death-and-numbers\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=45"},"modified":"2020-07-10T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:11:33","slug":"revisiting-the-iranian-hostage-crisis","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/death-and-numbers\/podcast\/revisiting-the-iranian-hostage-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Iranian Hostage Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the popularity of Marjane Satrapi\u2019s <em>Persepolis<\/em>, a graphic novel and memoir from 1980 to 1994, has reframed the Iranian Hostage Crisis for readers in America and around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How the popularity of Marjane Satrapi\u2019s Persepolis, a graphic novel and memoir from 1980 to 1994, has reframed the Iranian Hostage Crisis for readers in America and around the world.","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/death-and-numbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/06\/Death-and-Numbers-Iranian-Hostage-Crisis.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"10.85M","filesize_raw":"11375648","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[64,65,57,30,60,63,58,61,59,62],"categories":[],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-45","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","5":"tag-64","6":"tag-65","7":"tag-feminism","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iranian","11":"tag-iranian-hostage-crisis","12":"tag-marjane-satrapi","13":"tag-persepolis","14":"tag-persia","15":"series-death-and-numbers","16":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":579,"post_author":"40","post_date":"2020-06-25 17:19:39","post_date_gmt":"2020-06-25 17:19:39","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/amyvidor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy\u00a0<\/a>is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/research\/mellon-esi\/\">postdoctoral fellow<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). 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Perceptively weaves the narrative of her<br \/>\nlife from the years nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety four. Volume two<br \/>\nbegins with Margin&#8217;s father reading the newspaper headlines aloud as his wife prepares food<br \/>\nin their kitchen. They&#8217;ve occupied the US embassy. Who&#8217;s<br \/>\nthey? Who do you think the fundamentalist students have taken the Americans hostage?<br \/>\nReally? They call it a den of spies. Ha ha. You&#8217;d think it was a James<br \/>\nBond movie. You&#8217;re not interested? I couldn&#8217;t care less anyway.<br \/>\nThe Americans are dummies. Maybe. But now no one can go to the United States.<br \/>\nWhy is that? Think about it. No embassy, no visa.<br \/>\nOn November 4th, 1979, Iranian revolutionary stormed the United<br \/>\nStates embassy in Tehran following President Carter&#8217;s decision to allow the deposed Shah into<br \/>\nAmerica. While Carter granted the Shah in to receive cancer treatment, protesters<br \/>\nsaw it as the U.S. plotting the Shah&#8217;s return to power. That day,<br \/>\nthe Iranians took 66 people hostage. Meanwhile, six Americans successfully<br \/>\nfled and were later sheltered at the Canadian embassy before being rescued during the operation.<br \/>\nCanadian caper. With the exception of 13 people who were deemed subjects<br \/>\nof the oppression of American society, that is the hostages who were women, African-Americans<br \/>\nand non-U.S. citizens and one man who needed medical treatment. The remaining<br \/>\nNews. Now day one, day one of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s presidency and day<br \/>\none of freedom for 52 Americans, thousands of miles apart. These two historic<br \/>\nevents moved almost on parallel tracks today. The new president had not been in office an hour<br \/>\nwhen the former hostages became free men and women again. And they are well along now on their trip<br \/>\nto West Germany and eventually to home. Although the hostages all survived, many<br \/>\nwere tortured, beaten and subjected to mock executions for well over a year.<br \/>\nHowever, the hostages stories are often the only ones told by Western media,<br \/>\nas Satrapi&#8217;s perceptively points out, we often neglect to discuss the impact of the hostage crisis<br \/>\non Iran. As a student fanatics, we&#8217;re not representative of all Iranians.<br \/>\nSatrapy opens perceptibly with a preface to explain her motivations for telling her story.<br \/>\nIran is an old and great civilization that has been discussed mostly in connection<br \/>\nwith fundamentalism, fanaticism and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more<br \/>\nthan half my life in Iran, I know that this image is far from the truth.<br \/>\nThis is why writing perceptively was so important to me. I believe that an entire nation<br \/>\nshould not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists. Born in nineteen sixty<br \/>\nnine, ten years before the Islamic Revolution, Satrapi grew up in an upper class<br \/>\nIranian family. Her parents were Marxists, oppose the Western supported Shah,<br \/>\nthe Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent establishment of an Islamic<br \/>\nstate under the Ayatollah. For satrapy, it was imperative that she<br \/>\ncreate perceptively not only because of Western attitudes towards Iran and a pre<br \/>\nand post 9\/11 world, but because of her personal experiences with Western<br \/>\nignorance regarding her culture. When she was in her 20s, she immigrated to France<br \/>\nfrom Iran, an interview she tells the anecdote of how Europeans would frequently profile<br \/>\nher assuming she spoke Arabic. However, like most Iranians, Satrapy<br \/>\ngrew up speaking Persian by teaching Western readers about Iran. She reminds us how easy<br \/>\nit is to perpetuate stereotypes while making sure to not shield readers from the realities of the revolution.<br \/>\nThe Satrapi&#8217;s, like many Iranians, suffered as a result of the hostage crisis<br \/>\nseveral days after the embassy was occupied. The Ministry of Education decreed that all universities<br \/>\nand schools would close so that the curriculum could be restructured to educate future imperialists.<br \/>\nFor two years, all the Iranian schools were closed. These types of governmental<br \/>\nrestrictions oppressed Iranians like satrapy and perceptively. She recalls<br \/>\nher mother worrying about these initial decrees being a slippery slope. You&#8217;ll see soon they&#8217;re<br \/>\nactually going to force us to wear the veil. You&#8217;ll have to trade your car for a camel cart<br \/>\nwith a backward policy. This leads Marjan to reflect on how her dream of wanting<br \/>\nto be an educated, liberated woman would no longer be a possibility under the Islamic State.<br \/>\nAnd indeed, her mother was correct. It is still compulsory for Iranian women to wear a veil in<br \/>\npublic. In a 2004 interview with Andy Toleave of book [INAUDIBLE] Satrapy<br \/>\nexplains how she wants perceptively to foster understanding and her case for people to<br \/>\nread her graphic novel and realize that there are Iranians just like them till<br \/>\nhe follows up by asking are you so determined to foster understanding between people? Because<br \/>\nyou see, particularly in the last three years, that we&#8217;re getting further away from that to which<br \/>\nsatrapy responded. I think the question is between the people, the politics<br \/>\nof the world has created that. When I come to the United States, I&#8217;m supposed to be<br \/>\nthe axis of evil. They are supposed to be the nest of Satan. That is the way the two<br \/>\ncountries call each other, which is really bad when George Bush uses the same kind of words<br \/>\nto use the same words as a completely fanatic theological regime. When I come and see people<br \/>\nhere, everything is fine. In an era of Islamophobia prompted by ongoing<br \/>\nconflicts in the Middle East as well as ISIS and other terrorist organizations, works by artists such<br \/>\nas Satrapy Encourages Tolerance, which begins with individuals by revisiting<br \/>\nevents such as the Iranian hostage crisis and attempting to recognize the impacts behind<br \/>\nour own nation, we can start to create conversations based on understanding rather than difference.<br \/>\nToday, the U.S. embassy remains closed. The 1970s interior is frozen<br \/>\nin time. Still referred to as the den of spies by Iranians. The building<br \/>\nhas turned into a quasi museum and now includes anti-American murals, cases showing<br \/>\nsupposed surveillance equipment collected by the CIA. Photographs of the revolution<br \/>\nand stage rooms featuring mannequins recreate in suspected secret meetings. A<br \/>\nvisit to the embassy will remind you of the radical nature of the student revolution that once occupied<br \/>\nthe building. After the end of the hostage crisis, the Islamic republic was<br \/>\nfirmly cemented under the leadership of the radical ayatollah. Even today,<br \/>\nwith the election of moderate Hassan Rouhani in 2013, the Iranian government has<br \/>\ncontinued to oppress its people. A 2007 article, Man of Principle<br \/>\nby The Economist&#8217;s notes how? According to Human Rights Watch, an international<br \/>\nlobbying group, Iranian detainees are routinely tortured in clandestine prisons operated<br \/>\nby the judiciary, the Information Ministry and the Revolutionary Guards. The rate<br \/>\nof executions appears to have speeded up to Iran, now executes more people<br \/>\nthan any other country except China, often without giving defendants<br \/>\na fair trial. In the year following the return of the U.S. embassy, hostages,<br \/>\nan estimated two thousand nine hundred and forty six Iranians were executed<br \/>\nwithin two years. That number rose to seven thousand seven hundred and forty six people.<br \/>\nThe revolution also incited Iraq&#8217;s invasion in 1980 and led to the death of an estimated<br \/>\nyears. While some Iranians certainly supported and participated in<br \/>\nthe hostage crisis and subsequent revolution, as Satrapi reminds us, they are not<br \/>\nrepresentative of the majority in the future. Perhaps we should try to remember that<br \/>\nan entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few.<br \/>\nThis has been Death A Numbers, a podcast created and produced by the Humanities Media<br \/>\nProject in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin and Liberal Arts Instructional<br \/>\nTechnology Services player Amy Vidar and Caroline Baarda notes for the show, including<br \/>\nlinks and photos can be found on our website. Humanity&#8217;s Media Project Dawg. Our<br \/>\ntheme music is enthusiast by Tourre&#8217;s. 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