A day to oppose global arrogance, national struggle against aggressive powers

In 1979, a group of Iranian university students took over the US embassy, which they maintained had turned into a center of espionage aimed at overthrowing the Islamic Republic in Iran following the country’s Islamic Revolution earlier in 1979. Imam Khomeini stressed, “I have said it times and again that takeover of the US embassy by Muslim youth and students was a natural reaction to the harm being done to our people by America.”

Leader says 1953 coup, not embassy takeover, ‘starting point’ in US-Iran row

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has dismissed as a “lie” the US assertion that the 1979 takeover of their embassy in Tehran is what set off the ongoing dispute between Iran and the United States, saying the "starting point" of the row goes back to the CIA-orchestrated coup of 1953.

Iranians rally nationwide to denounce terrorist attack in Shiraz

Protesters rallied across Iran, including in the capital Tehran, following Friday prayers. They chanted slogans and held banners calling for bringing those responsible to justice.

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Imam Khomeini's decades long struggle and exile for Islamic Revolution

Iranians mourn martyrdom anniversary of Imam Reza

Millions of mourners have gathered in Iran’s holy city of Mashhad to mark the martyrdom anniversary of the eighth Shia Imam, Ali bin Musa al-Reza.

Iranians rally to decry foreign-backed riots, desecration of sanctities

Iranians have held rallies across the country to deplore the acts of vandalism and desecration of Islamic sanctities by foreign-backed rioters in the past few days, following the death of a young Iranian woman in a hospital days after collapsing at a police station in the capital Tehran.

President Raeisi says Friday demonstrations portray power of Islamic Republic

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi says the nationwide demonstrations in support of the Islamic Republic on Friday portray the power of the establishment.