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Richard Henry Morefield (September 9, 1929 – October 11, 2010) was an American diplomat who served in the United States Foreign Service. He was one of the 66 staff members at the American embassy in Tehran who were taken captive by a militant Islamist student group called the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line on November ...
Oct 16, 2010 · As throngs of Islamist militants surged into the American Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, Richard Morefield, the United States consul general to Iran, told colleagues around him to flee the...
Jan 20, 2024 · In those frantic moments before the embassy fell, consul general Richard Morefield helped five Americans escape. They ended up in the Canadian embassy.
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Jul 7, 2017 · It had been a few weeks, maybe months, after U.S. diplomat Richard Morefield returned home after 444 hellacious days as one of 52 Americans held captive by Iranian militants from November 1979 to January 1981. Morefield was approached by an older couple in a restaurant who thanked him for being “a hero.”.
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Feb 4, 1981 · In the middle of his second night in captivity, Mr. Morefield, the Consul General, was awakened by gunmen. ''Are you Richard Morefield?'' one asked. ''Yes.'' ''Come with us.''
Oct 14, 2010 · Richard Morefield, an unflappable career diplomat who was consul general in Tehran when he was seized by Iranian militants in 1979 and endured 444 days in captivity, including three mock ...
Oct 15, 2010 · Richard Morefield, a former career diplomat who was the U.S. consul general in Tehran in 1979 when the American Embassy was seized by Iranian militants and he and 51 other Americans were...
