 Kupindura chikumbiro cheIran chokubudisa Shah weIran Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Mutungamiri weUnited States, Jimmy Carter, akapa zvirongwa zvekufamba kwaShah kuPanama. Nokuita kudaro, Carter akatsvaka kubvisa bviro yokuendeswa kune dzimwe nyika mukutsinhana nevasungwa vakanga vakabatwaneIran yechimurenga kwemazuva 444 November 4, 1979, kusvika January 20, 1981 mushure mekunge boka revadzidzi veIran vechimurenga vanobatana neMuslim Student Followers of the Imams Line vapinda nekupinda muEmbassy yeUnited States of America muTehran, uye vakatora vashandi vayo vekudyidzana. Ikokuwo, kwakanga kwave kuri chiito mukupindura United States ichipa utiziro hwezvamatongerwe enyika kuna Shah. Vhiki pashure pechiitiko chacho, machira nemari zveIran zvakatorwa neUS. Bva, pasinei zvapo neizvo zvakarangarirwa neIran kuva tyisidziro dzamarudzi ose, kwakanga kuchine bviro yokuitwa kwemiedzo nokuda kwenhume dzokuAmerica dzinofungidzirwa, uye kuita kwaAyatollah Khomeini mukurwisana netyisidziro yaCarter yakabudiswa nguva dzose namapepanhau enyika, kwakanga kuri kutaura kwokuti America haigoni kuita chinhu chipi nechipi chakaipa kwatiri. 