When Iranian students chanting anti-American slogans gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran at about 10:30 on the morning of November 4, 1979, it seemed that they would be following other groups heading to a planned demonstration at the nearby university.
Instead the crowd surged toward the embassy’s front gates. Young women pulled bolt cutters …
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