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Lynch, James, 1947-: House of Iran. 13 February 1980
Date: 1980
From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]
By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0022038
Description: Shows a New Zealander hastily leaving the New Zealand Embassy by the back door as a consignment of New Zealand lamb is pushed through the front door. Context: The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in support of the Iranian Revolution. (Wikipedia) This was the cartoonist's first-ever published work Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).