TEHRAN: With anti-American slogans and effigies mocking President Donald Trump, thousands rallied outside the former US embassy in Tehran on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis. Rallies also took place in several other cities four decades to the day after revolutionary students stormed the complex and seized dozens of American diplomats and embassy staff – an event that still strains ties. “We are ready to crush this scorpion and will also pay the price.”He slammed the idea of interacting with the United States as a ruse, echoing recent remarks by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to the Mehr news agency, “the documents found (inside the US embassy in 1979) proved revolutionary students’ claim that Washington was using the building to plot” against the nascent Islamic republic. Trump withdrew the United States from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers last year and reimposed punishing sanctions.

Source: New Strait Times November 04, 2019 12:45 UTC