Captors move some US hostages to 13th city

By With Analysis from Monitor Correspondents around the world; Edited by Debra K. Piot

May 16, 1980

Tehran, Iran

Some US hostages have been moved to the city of Hamedan, 220 miles east of here, their captors said Thursday. It is the 13th city to which the hostages have been dispersed since the abortive US rescue mission April 24. Makeshift jails range from the former US consulate in Tabriz to a private house on Palestine Street in the Turkoman town of Gorgan, near the Soviet border.