Iranians Mark 1979 US Embassy Takeover Amid Tension
5th November 2025
Iranians on Tuesday celebrated the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — the first such commemoration since the U.S. bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities during a 12-day war with Israel in June.
On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students overran guards to take over the embassy, seizing dozens of hostages in a crisis that would last for more than a year.
In what is a yearly commemoration, thousands of people returned to the spot in downtown Tehran on Tuesday chanting “death to U.S.” and “death to Israel.”
If Jimmy Carter hadn’t been such a totally limp dick, we’d have formally declared war against Iran and cleaned their clocks once and for all.