That's the remedy if they think it's illegal. Now, more interesting, three parts of this. How do we get here? Where are we in this moment, and where do we go from here? Well, 47 years ago, this started. What you had was the Iranians take over our embassy in Iran. And they illegally held and kidnapped and restrained our diplomats there, a number of them, for 444 days. At that point in time, 47 years ago, there were two sides. (02:54–03:06)
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Asserts that the Iranian hostage crisis began 47 years ago.
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