Iran Hostage Crisis: A foreign policy shaped by domestic struggles

• In Event: Foreign Policy under Pressure: Organizational Dynamics, Strategy, and Security Challenges in the Middle East

Brief Overview

The paper applies the Bureaucratic Politics Model to analyze the Iran Hostage Crisis, shaped by internal power struggles among student activists, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the interim government during the 1979-1981 period.

Author

• Mohammad Mazhari, Texas Woman's University