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To: Captain Jack who wrote (84084)	11/5/2004 12:16:54 AM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 793890

Why am I not surprised? This was the NYT coverage: Embassy Takeover Is Celebrated TEHRAN, Nov. 3 (Reuters) - Several thousand Iranians burned American flags and effigies of President Bush on Wednesday, marking the 25th anniversary of the storming of the American Embassy in Tehran. Enmity between the United States and Iran dates to the 1979 seizure of the embassy by radical Islamic students, who held 52 hostages there for 444 days. In 2002, Mr. Bush labeled Iran a member of an "axis of evil," with Iraq and North Korea. Chanting "Death to America!" and "Death to corrupt Western culture!" the crowd of mostly young students, who had been given a day off from school, listened to speeches deriding the "Great Satan," as Iran's clerical leadership routinely calls the United States. WaPo had a longer article on the same subject, and both had long articles on the current visit of the librarian of Congress to Tehran. Thanks for the historical perspective, guys. :-(