Iranians mark National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance amid US threats

Iran is holding demonstrations in more than 900 locations on Wednesday to mark the National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance.

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.”

US embassy takeover marked ‘strategic choice’ between resistance, surrender

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the National Day of the Fight against Global Arrogance, also known as the National Student Day, represents the nation’s strategic choice between resistance and submission.

Imam described takeover of US embassy by students as Revolution greater than the first revolution

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Excerpted and adapted from “We and the Responsibility of Preserving the Islamic System / Preserving the System through the Power of the Nation” by Davoud Rezaei.

Strong winds had been assigned by God, the Almighty, to destroy all US war machinery in Tabas.

Imam Khomeini at the time said that sand particles and strong winds had been assigned by God, the Almighty, to destroy all US war machinery in Tabas.

It was not an embassy here, but a US spy-den

(Extracted from a series of memoirs by Seyyed Ahamad Khomeini, Vol. 1, P. 49)