“Like Jesus Christ, I bear all the sins on my shoulders,” Asgharzadeh told the Associated Press. “Our plan was one of students, unprofessional and temporary.”In November 1979 Iranian students stormed the city’s American embassy. In later years Asgharzadeh became an outspoken political activist in Iran, and a vocal backer of modernization and closer ties to the West. Iran was simmering with rage, as Iranians wanted their former leader to be put on trial. “Everything happened so fast,” Asgharzadeh told the Associated Press, according to the New York Post.

Source: National Post November 04, 2019 16:38 UTC