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During the Iran hostage crisis 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days. Consider the following:

Wikipedia said:
The next opportunity to seize the American embassy was initially planned in September 1979 by Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, a student at that time. He consulted with the heads of the Islamic associations of Tehran's main universities, including the University of Tehran, Sharif University of Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology (Polytechnic of Tehran) and Iran University of Science and Technology. Their group was named Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line.
Asgharzadeh later said there were five students at the first meeting, two of whom wanted to target the Soviet embassy because the USSR was "a Marxist and anti-God regime."

Let's say there were three out of five who wanted to target the Soviet embassy rather than two, taking who knows how many Soviet diplomats and citizens hostage. What happens next? How does Brezhnev respond?
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