Original sentence: His visits included going to Iran to perform Christmas services for hostages being held in the U.embassy during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and to Nicaragua to protest U
Edited sentence: Coffin and other visiting clergy seemed most concerned with not offending their Iranian hosts.Coffin exhorted the hostages to hold hands with their captors while they sang songs.He also traveled to Nicaragua to protest U.In 1979 During the Iranian hostage crisis Coffin was invited to meet the American hostages as part of the Iranian's Christmas pagent.The point of the service, and Coffin's visit, was superficially to promote the allegedly generous circumstances of the Americans' captivity, but practically to promote the benificence of Ayatollah Khomeini's regime