“We thank God that Iran and the great Iranian nation, which have strategically confronted the criminal, malicious and terrorist US administrations over the past seven decades, are now recognized as the flag-bearers of the fight against imperialism and are revealing the White House’s inhumane crimes against world nations,” the IRGC said in a statement on the event of the event.
The statement noted that the lessons drawn from the 1979 takeover of the American embassy in Tehran have formed the basis for the awakening of US-manipulated countries and nations in the face of the “satanic and inhumane policies” and approaches of arrogant powers.
This is taking place as nations are throwing off the shackles of US dominance and arrogance, and the geography of arrogance in the world is waning day by day, it added.
The IRGC underlined that Iranians will turn out en masse in November 4 rallies across the country in order to call out the resounding defeat of US-Israeli seditious plots during recent riots in the country.
The demonstrations will also mark an end to the all-out hybrid warfare against the Islamic Republic, and will once again prove to the entire world the Iranian nation’s resistance and fight against global arrogance, the statement pointed out.
On November 4, 1979, and in less than a year after the victory of the Islamic Revolution that toppled a US-backed monarchy, Iranian university students that called themselves "students following the line of (the late) Imam (Khomeini)" seized the US embassy in Tehran, which had become a center of espionage and planning to overthrow the newly established Islamic system in Iran.
The students who seized the embassy later published documents proving that the compound was indeed engaged in plans and measures to overthrow the Islamic republic.
Every year on the 13th day of the Iranian month of Aban (which this year falls on Friday, November 4), the Iranian nation, particularly the students, hold rallies across the country to mark the day.
In the capital city of Tehran, the rallies to mark the anniversary of the landmark move are held at the venue of the former US embassy, which is known by Iranians as “Den of Espionage”.
Intelligence minister: Heinous crimes of enemies will not go unpunished
Meanwhile, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib commemorated the National Day against the Global Arrogance and assured the Iranian nation that attacks and heinous crimes committed by rioters during the recent unrest in the country will not go unpunished.
“On November 7, 1979, the delusions of grandeur of the Great Satan (the United States) were derided, and the subversive espionage conspiracies against the nascent Islamic establishment were met with a humiliating defeat,” Khatib stated.
“Nowadays, a pre-planned conspiracy hatched by the global arrogance, the usurping Zionism as well as vassal and reactionary regimes in the region” is underway against the country, which has exploited ignorant individuals to incite street riots and desecrate the revered shrine of Shah Cheragh in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz.
Such attempts exhibit the extent and depth of enemies’ animosity toward Iran more than ever, the senior Iranian official noted.
Khatib also assured the Iranian nation that the country’s intelligence and security forces will give a befitting response to those behind latest attacks and heinous crimes in the country, and that their actions will not go unanswered.