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The best-known example of what happens when hostility reaches a breaking point is the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, but numerous embassies have been stormed since then.
A suicide car bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut killed 49 embassy staff and injured 34 more. At the time, it was the deadliest attack ever on a US diplomatic mission abroad. It came after multinational forces, including a US delegation, entered the country to try and restore order during the Lebanese civil war.
A second bombing of the embassy in 1984 killed 11 people and injured 58, according to the State Department. The embassy closed for about a year in 1989 due to security concerns.
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