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Why did Iranian students take over the US Embassy 38 years ago?

Iranian students climb over the walls of the US embassy in Tehran, November 4, 1979.

Iranians have held anti-US rallies across the country to mark National Day of Fight Against Global Arrogance. It coincides with the takeover of the US Embassy in 1979. They believed the embassy had turned into a espionage den to overthrow the newly-establish Islamic Republic.


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