Question: 66 of the people whom the Soviets not want to engage in conflict were held hostage for 444 days in the late 1970s by a country. What is the presumed largest ethnic group of this country?

in modern times, the javanese are the largest ethnic group in southeast asia, with more than 100 million people, mostly concentrated in java, indonesia. in burma, the burmese account for more than two-thirds of the ethnic stock in this country, while ethnic thais and vietnamese account for about four-fifths of the respective populations of those countries. indonesia is clearly dominated by the javanese and sundanese ethnic groups, while malaysia is split between half malays and one-quarter chinese. within the philippines, the tagalog, cebuano, ilocano, and hiligaynon groups are significant. <SEP> the iranian embassy siege took place from 30 april to 5 may 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the iranian embassy in south kensington, london. the gunmen, members of an iranian arab group campaigning for arab national sovereignty in the southern iranian region of khuzestan province, took 26 people hostage -- mostly embassy staff, but also several visitors as well as a police officer who had been guarding the embassy. they demanded the release of arab prisoners from prisons in khuzestan and their own safe passage out of the united kingdom. margaret thatcher's government quickly resolved that safe passage would not be granted, and a siege ensued. over the following days, police negotiators secured the release of five hostages in exchange for minor concessions, such as the broadcasting of the hostage - takers' demands on british television. <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). <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. Stalin made it clear that Soviet forces would not openly engage in combat, to avoid a direct war with the Americans. 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. Once Mao's commitment was secured, preparations for war accelerated. <SEP> 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. The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States of America. It stands as the longest hostage crisis in recorded history.