Question: The Soviets avoided conflict with the people 66 of which were held hostage for 444 days in the late 1970s by a Middle East country. The people speaking language resembled most by Armenias make up what percentage of that country's population?

Fifty - two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. It stands as the longest hostage crisis in recorded history. The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States of America. <SEP> in 1920, turkish nationalist forces invaded the fledgling armenian republic from the east. turkish forces under the command of kazım karabekir captured armenian territories that russia had annexed in the aftermath of the 1877–1878 russo-turkish war and occupied the old city of alexandropol (present-day gyumri). the violent conflict finally concluded with the treaty of alexandropol on 2 december 1920. the treaty forced armenia to disarm most of its military forces, cede all former ottoman territory granted to it by the treaty of sèvres, and to give up all the "wilsonian armenia" granted to it at the sèvres treaty. simultaneously, the soviet eleventh army, under the command of grigoriy ordzhonikidze, invaded armenia at karavansarai (present-day ijevan) on 29 november. by 4 december, ordzhonikidze's forces entered yerevan and the short-lived armenian republic collapsed. <SEP> in between the french and the british, large areas were dominated by native tribes. to the north, the mi'kmaq and the abenaki were engaged in father le loutre's war and still held sway in parts of nova scotia, acadia, and the eastern portions of the province of canada, as well as much of present-day maine. the iroquois confederation dominated much of present-day upstate new york and the ohio country, although the latter also included algonquian-speaking populations of delaware and shawnee, as well as iroquoian-speaking mingo. these tribes were formally under iroquois rule, and were limited by them in authority to make agreements. <SEP> The exonym Armenia is attested in the Old Persian Behistun Inscription (515 BC) as Armina (    ). The ancient Greek terms Ἀρμενία (Armenía) and Ἀρμένιοι (Arménioi, "Armenians") are first mentioned by Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC). He relates that the people spoke a language that to his ear sounded like the language of the Persians. Xenophon, a Greek general serving in some of the Persian expeditions, describes many aspects of Armenian village life and hospitality in around 401 BC. According to the histories of both Moses of Chorene and Michael Chamchian, Armenia derives from the name of Aram, a lineal descendant of Hayk. <SEP> In April 1950, Stalin gave Kim permission to invade the South under the condition that Mao would agree to send reinforcements if they became needed. Kim met with Mao in May 1950. Mao was concerned that the Americans would intervene but agreed to support the North Korean invasion. China desperately needed the economic and military aid promised by the Soviets. At that time, the Chinese were in the process of demobilizing half of the PLA's 5.6 million soldiers. However, Mao sent more ethnic Korean PLA veterans to Korea and promised to move an army closer to the Korean border. Stalin made it clear that Soviet forces would not openly engage in combat, to avoid a direct war with the Americans. Once Mao's commitment was secured, preparations for war accelerated. <SEP> As with the spoken languages, the ethnic group composition also remains a point of debate, mainly regarding the largest and second largest ethnic groups, the Persians and Azerbaijanis, due to the lack of Iranian state censuses based on ethnicity. The CIA's World Factbook has estimated that around 79% of the population of Iran are a diverse Indo-European ethno-linguistic group that comprise the speakers of Iranian languages, with Persians constituting 53% of the population, Gilaks and Mazanderanis 7%, Kurds 10%, Lurs 6%, and Balochs 2%. Peoples of the other ethnicities in Iran make up the remaining 22%, with Azerbaijanis constituting 16%, Arabs 2%, Turkmens and Turkic tribes 2%, and others 2% (such as Armenians, Talysh, Georgians, Circassians, Assyrians).