Hostage Aid Worldwide members and former hostages Xiyue Wang, Ali Arab and Nizar Zakka proudly presented Mr. Jose Pereira with a certificate of recognition and a challenge coin.

Barry Rosen was the press attaché at the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis. He first visited Iran in 1967 on a two-year Peace Corps mission and fell in love with the country and pursued graduate studies in Iranian language and culture.

Barry Rosen remembers Nov. 4, 1979 like it was yesterday.