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On October 22, 1979, President Carter allowed the Shah to make a brief stopover in the US for medical treatment for his cancer. The compromise was extremely unpopular with the revolutionary movement, which had been angered by the United States' years of support for the Shah's rule. The Iranian revolutionary government demanded the return of the Shah to Iran to stand trial.

Eventually, the US embassy in Tehran which became known as the Iran Hostage Crisis. He left the United States on December 15, 1979 and lived for a short time in Panama. Finally he returned to Egypt, where he died on July 27, 1980, at the age of 60. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave the Shah a state funeral.

So what if the Shah died a year sooner, say, July 27, 1979, before Carter allowed the Shah admission in the US. Then what?
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