Twenty-five years ago in Tehran a group of Iranian students stormed the US embassy and took hostage the entire American diplomatic mission -- igniting a fifteen-month international crisis whose impact is reverberating still. Now, for the first time, many of the leading hostage-takers speak candidly about their actions -- which a surprising number deeply regret. Among the Hostage-Takers | Mark Bowden | Atlantic Monthly, December 2004 | 
