 During the course of the siege , police and journalists established the identities of several other hostages . Mustapha <unk> was a journalist covering the crisis at the US Embassy in Tehran and was at the embassy for an interview with Abdul <unk> Ezzati , the cultural attaché . Muhammad <unk> <unk> was another journalist , at the embassy to interview Afrouz for an article on the Iranian Revolution . Simeon " Sim " Harris and Chris Cramer , both employees of the BBC , were at the embassy attempting to obtain visas to visit Iran — hoping to cover the aftermath of the 1979 revolution — after several unsuccessful attempts . They found themselves sitting next to <unk> <unk> , who was there to consult Ahmad <unk> , the embassy 's medical adviser , and Ali Asghar <unk> , who was collecting a map for use in a presentation he had been asked to give at the end of a course he had been attending . 
