LOS ANGELES TIMES, Dec. 7, 1979 

* Iran hostage crisis - Iranian Revolution
* Embassy of the United States, Tehran
* 1st Supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini

The front page has a banner headline: "More Hostages May Be Freed" with subhead and related photo. (see images) Nice for display. 
Complete 1st section only with all 28 pages, nice condition.

Background: By December 1979, the Iran hostage crisis had entered its second month, rapidly escalating from a revolutionary embassy takeover into an entrenched international deadlock. Following the initial November 4 assault by Iranian students demanding the extradition of the exiled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, December marked a crucial period of domestic consolidation for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who leveraged the anti-American standoff to secure the approval of a new theocratic constitution during the December 2–3 referendum, officially establishing the Islamic Republic with himself as Supreme Leader. Internationally, the crisis triggered sharp legal and diplomatic condemnation: on December 4, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 457 demanding the immediate release of the American hostages, followed on December 15 by an International Court of Justice order instructing Iran to return the embassy compound to U.S. control—both of which the Iranian regime outright rejected. Amidst these geopolitical tensions, the foreign clergy were permitted into the embassy over Christmas to hold services for the captives, generating televised footage that brought the emotional reality of the crisis into American homes and intensified pressure on President Jimmy Carter. The global landscape was further complicated on December 24 when the Soviet Union invaded neighboring Afghanistan, forcing the Carter administration to simultaneously navigate a major Cold War military expansion alongside the deteriorating standoff in Tehran, ultimately solidifying a complex 444-day siege that would not resolve until January 1981.