Rallies held throughout Iran to mark US embassy takeover

Iranians in different cities across the country took part in massive rallies chanting "Death to US" to mark the anniversary of the US embassy takeover in 1979. Tens of thousands of Iranians from all walks of life, including school and university students, took to the streets to commemorate the National Day of Campaign against Global Arrogance and the National Student Day in massive rallies on Monday. Participants in the annual rally in front of the former US embassy in Tehran known by the Iranians as "the den of spies" vowed to follow the path of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, and renewed allegiance to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. The demonstrators also condemned the US-led western sanctions against Iran, and stressed that the United States is the main enemy of the Iranian nation. Since the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, Iranians have been celebrating the occasion every year by holding rallies on the anniversary and marking it as the National Day against the 'Global Arrogance'. November 4 marks three important events in Iranian history: the takeover of the former US embassy in Tehran by Muslim students following the Imam's line in 1979 and the exile of the late Founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini by the Shah in 1964. It also marks the massacre of a large number of Iranian school students by the army of the former Pahlavi regime during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranian university students took over the US embassy building to thwart what they called Washington's plots against the Islamic Revolution. Inside the embassy, the students found shredded documents which proved their convictions.