article_snippet: The students paraded the blindfolded hostages for the cameras to humiliate the ‘Great Satan’ that Washington had become in the eyes of the Iranian revolutionary leaders.
article_snippet: Freeing the blindfolded hostages became a priority for the administration of U.S. President Jimmy Carter - but nothing could be done apart from enforcing ineffective economic sanctions.
article_snippet: Mr Carter pledged to preserve the lives of the blindfolded hostages and conducted intense diplomacy to secure the blindfolded hostages release.
article_snippet: Paraded: One of the blindfolded hostages, blindfolded and with Mr Carter hands bound, is displayed to crowds outside the US Embassy in 1979.
article_snippet: On the day of President Ronald Reagan's inauguration, January 20 1981, the blindfolded hostages were set free .
article_snippet: the blindfolded hostages were finally set free on January 20 1981.