Tonight on Extension 720: Twenty-five years and one week ago, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. The ensuing hostage crisis, which finally ended on January 20, 1981, has set the tone for the tense relations between the United States and Iran from the fall of the shah until today. Tonight on Extension 720, we will closely examine Iran, including its nuclear capabilities, with KEN POLLACK, director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is a former director of Gulf affairs at the national Security Council and former CIA analyst. His latest book is The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America.

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