Photos: Iran marks US embassy takeover with rallies against US, Israel
Summary
Iran held rallies in Tehran on Wednesday to mark the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy, with demonstrators denouncing the United States and Israel. Iranian officials said the two countries had suffered defeats in war and politics, as the anniversary came amid the war launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran on February 28.Key Facts
- Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, and held 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days.
- Iran and the United States have had no formal diplomatic relations since the embassy crisis.
- Thousands of demonstrators marched through central Tehran, burning U.S. and Israeli flags and chanting against both countries.
- The rallies included effigies and caricatures of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani described the United States and Israel as decisively defeated and linked U.S. weaknesses to Iran's strength.
- Iranian judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi said Trump had failed in war and politics.
- The article says the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28 killed Iran's longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and disrupted global energy markets and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
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