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Iranians Hold Rally to Mark Seizure of Ex-US Embassy
Thousands of Iranians, most of them teenage students, held a rally on Sunday to mark the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran.
The demonstrators, shouting slogans against "the international arrogant powers," notably the U.S. and Israel, marched toward the embassy compound on Taleqani Street to mark the "national day of struggle against the global arrogance."
Organizers of the annual event called for denouncing the U.S., and expressed support for the Afghan people suffering from the U.S.-led military strikes.
The U.S. has been pounding Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia for sheltering Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect of the September 11 terror attacks in the U.S., since October 7.
The demonstrators also planned to issue a resolution to condemn the U.S. operations in Afghanistan and the Israeli atrocities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
On November 4, 1979, between 300 and 400 radical students stormed the U.S. embassy compound, now known in Iran as the "nest of spies," and seized the embassy.
They also took 52 U.S. embassy members hostage and held them for 444 days, leading to the severance of diplomatic ties between the two countries in 1980.
The former U.S. embassy compound has since January 1981 become the "property" of the elite Iranian revolutionary guards, and has been recently open to the public for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution with an exhibition of "proofs of crimes committed by the U.S. against Iran."
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