In November 3, 2025, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his annual address on the eve of what Iran terms the ‘National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance’, which marks three important junctures in Iran’s history – Ayatollah Khomeini’s exile by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1964, the Pahlavi forces’ killing of student protestors at the University of Tehran in 1978, and (most importantly) the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by students proclaiming loyalty to Khomeini in 1979. Mr. Khamenei’s address focused on an old effort — to consistently re-legitimise the Embassy takeover and reinforce a revisionist history of...
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