Or should it be ‘Straight of Hormuz Held Hostage’? Anyway, it should be sort of obvious by now that the Iranians have pulled out their old 1979 hostage-crisis playbook and are just stringing out the current showdown with the U.S. for maximum political purposes. … And just like 47 years ago, our current president seems trapped by today’s crisis. … 

Fyi: The above video is ABC’s very first “America Held Hostage” special report in ’79, featuring Frank Reynolds, not Ted Koppel, as some people might think. Koppel famously took over ABC’s hostage-crisis coverage at a later point.