Iranian students climb over the wall of the US embassy in Tehran ...
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Iranian students climb over the wall of the US embassy in Tehran 4 November 1979. Many of the Iranians who led the storming of the US embassy in Tehran 30 years ago, inspired by the newly-created Islamic Republic, have become severe critics of the regime they helped to establish.

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