Read history. The Iranians sent them back after the election, because Carter's team had negotiated their release in what were called the Algiers Accords. It had nothing to do with Reagan, But, he tiook credit for it, like the lying scum he was. He did the same in lobbying hard against a ballot proposition in California in 1966 that would create a withholding system for state taxes, Up to then, you were honor bound to pay, and little else could be done. He camapigned against it, but when it passed the state finally had the money each month to pay its bills and a bit of a surplus. He took credit for it, and the surplus.