Nov. 2009 photos: Protests in Iran on 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy’s seizure
Flag-waving Iranian schoolgirls attend an annual demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Wednesday in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. The poster at top center shows late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini. (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)
Members of Basij militia burn a U.S. flag in an annual demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Wednesday. (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)
An Iranian student holds a poster of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and the late supreme leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as she walks past a mural outside the former U.S. Embassy. (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)
An Iranian student uses a flag to veil her face during a demonstration marking the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)
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Iranian students flash the victory sign and hold their national flag during a rally outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Wednesday. (Behrouz Mehri / AFP / Getty Images)
Iranian protesters hold a British flag during a rally in Tehran on Wednesday to mark the storming 30 years ago of the American Embassy by Iranian students. Thousands of Iranians staged the noisy anti-U.S. rally in central Tehran as riot police armed with batons and firing tear gas moved on as several hundred opposition supporters attempting to stage an antigovernment protest. (Behrouz Mehri AFP / Getty Images)
