Statement of Adherence on the United States-Iran Agreement on Release of the American Hostages
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States, I hereby agree and adhere, on behalf of the United States of America, to the provisions of the Undertakings of the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran with respect to the Declaration of the Government of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria. These Undertakings shall constitute an international agreement legally binding upon the United States and Iran upon the execution of an equivalent statement of agreement and adherence by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the delivery of both statements to the Government of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria.
JIMMY CARTER
The White House,
January 19, 1981.
Note: The text of the statement was released by the White House Press Office on January 21.
Jimmy Carter, Statement of Adherence on the United States-Iran Agreement on Release of the American Hostages Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250924