Notable Hostage Takers, Guards, Interrogators
- Abbas Abdi, now one of Iran's most influential reformists, journalist, self-taught sociologist, and social activist
- Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, then a student, now an Iranian political activist and politician; member of 3rd Majlis (Iran's legislature) from 1989–1993, and leader of the Hambastegi (Unity or Solidarity) political party
- Mohsen Mirdamadi, an organizer of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis; member of Majlis 2000–2004; "head of the largest pro-reform party" in Iran, Islamic Iran Participation Front
- Masoumeh Ebtekar, interpreter and spokesperson of the student group that occupied the U.S. Embassy in 1979; an Iranian scientist, journalist and politician; later she became the first female Vice President of Iran, head of Environment Protection Organization of Iran during the administration of President Mohammad Khatami, and is currently a city councilwoman of Tehran.
- Hussein Sheikholeslam, a student, later a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, and Iranian ambassador to Syria
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