Iran marks capture of U.S. embassy, Students Day
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN -– Millions of students staged anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli demonstrations across the country on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the Iranian students’ capture of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, the martyrdom of tens of students by the Shah’s regime in 1978, and also the exile of the founder of the Islamic Republic, late Imam Khomeini, in 1964.

The day known as the Aban 13th (Nov. 4) is named the National Day of Struggle against Global Arrogance or the Students’ Day.

Demonstrators congregated in front of the former U.S. embassy building in Tehran, which is referred to as the “den of spies”, and chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans, voicing their support for Iran’s right to use peaceful nuclear energy.

A statement issued at the end of the event declared that the United States is still the country’s “number one enemy.”

It also emphasized that the only way to establish security and stability in the region is that occupiers leave Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine.

In his address to the demonstrators in Tehran, Interior Minister Mostafa Purmohammadi said, “Today’s world is not the world of guns, dollars, and sanctions.”

If it was so, after four years of military presence in Iraq, spending billions of dollars, and deploying hundreds of thousand troops, the U.S. should have been able to achieve its objectives, he stated.

But now it is not the U.S. that is determining Iraqi nation’s destiny, he explained.

“The U.S. has designed a triangle of military, cultural and economic threats against the Iranian nation,” he added.

Addressing the rally, Education Minister Mahmud Farshidi also stated that Iran is the greatest challenge to U.S. foreign policy and this proves the importance of the Islamic Republic in the region.

He also praised the vigilance of the youth and the religious and political knowledge of the students

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