Iranians Rally on Anniversary of 1979 U.S. Embassy Takeover

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : As RFE pointed out, Iran's vicious November 4 celebrations were held the day after Iran agreed to renewed nuclear negotiations with the United States and European Union.
56% : The Iranian regime organized massive rallies on Thursday to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran - the beginning of a 444-day hostage crisis touted as a great victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
50% : Radio Free Europe (RFE) cited Iranian state television reports that demonstrations were held in 800 cities across Iran.
50% : Tehran saluted all of these movements as fellow soldiers in the "powerful army of the Islamic Ummah" fighting against the "system of global domination and Zionism" perpetuated by the United States, Israel, and their allies.
47% : The rally in Tehran featured an address from Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization.
40% : November 4 is also marked on Iranian regime calendars as the day the godfather of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was exiled to Turkey in 1964, and the day of a 1978 Islamist student protest that was brutally suppressed by the Shah of Iran.

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