{"id":974133,"date":"2021-11-05T21:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T01:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=974133"},"modified":"2021-11-05T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T01:29:21","slug":"pictures-iran-hosts-u-s-flag-burnings-in-800-cities-to-celebrate-1979-hostage-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pictures-iran-hosts-u-s-flag-burnings-in-800-cities-to-celebrate-1979-hostage-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures: Iran Hosts U.S. Flag-Burnings in 800 Cities to Celebrate 1979 Hostage Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpictures-iran-hosts-u-s-flag-burnings-in-800-cities-to-celebrate-1979-hostage-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=974133&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>The Iranian regime organized massive rallies on Thursday to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran \u2013 the beginning of a 444-day hostage crisis touted as a great victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-anniversary-us-embassy\/31545709.html\"><span>Radio Free Europe<\/span><\/a><span> (RFE) cited Iranian state television reports that demonstrations were held in 800 cities across Iran. The rally in Tehran featured an address from Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/foreign-terrorist-organizations\/\"><span>designated<\/span><\/a><span> terrorist organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Salami delivered a speech about the evils of U.S. imperialism while an oversized American flag was \u201cspread on the street so protesters could stomp on it,\u201d as RFE put it. American and Israeli flags were burned at other rallies amid chants of \u201cDeath to America\u201d and \u201cDeath to Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Salami claimed the U.S. has \u201cused all means, policies, and strategies to surrender the Iranian nation,\u201d but despite these efforts, \u201cthe Islamic Republic has become stronger.\u201d The sizable number of Iranians who have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-protests-pensioners-20211031\"><span>protesting<\/span><\/a><span> against their government\u2019s mismanagement of the economy, education, and the coronavirus pandemic might disagree.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18623610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/AP_21308362637049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18623610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21308362637049-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A demonstrator carries a banner with a caricature of the U.S. President Joe Biden in a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy commemorating the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021.&nbsp; (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18623554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/AP_21308369883554.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18623554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21308369883554-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A mock U.S. flag is set on fire by demonstrators in a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy commemorating the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>A statement from the Iranian government restated its support for Palestinian, Lebanese, and Yemeni terrorist movements, along with Iran\u2019s proxy forces in Iraq and Syria, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/14\/small-protests-mark-10th-anniversary-of-bahrain-uprising\"><span>restless<\/span><\/a><span> Shiites of Bahrain.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tehran saluted all of these movements as fellow soldiers in the \u201cpowerful army of the Islamic Ummah\u201d fighting against the \u201csystem of global domination and Zionism\u201d perpetuated by the United States, Israel, and their allies. The November 4 statement also condemned Muslim nations that normalized relations with Israel during former President Donald Trump\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-abraham-accords\/\"><span>Abraham Accords<\/span><\/a><span> initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Iran\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2021\/11\/04\/669889\/Iranians-stage-nationwide-rallies-condemn-US-hegemony\"><span>PressTV<\/span><\/a><span> noted that November 4 is known as \u201cNational Day of the Fight Against Global Arrogance\u201d and \u201cNational Student Day,\u201d a nod to the student \u201cactivists\u201d who overran the U.S. Embassy in 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>November 4 is also marked on Iranian regime calendars as the day the godfather of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/2\/1\/40-years-on-khomeinis-return-from-exile-and-the-iran-revolution\"><span>exiled<\/span><\/a><span> to Turkey in 1964, and the day of a 1978 Islamist student protest that was brutally suppressed by the Shah of Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cLast year\u2019s events were canceled due to an increase in COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] infections, this year\u2019s events are being held across the nation while people observe health protocols,\u201d PressTV said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As RFE pointed out, Iran\u2019s vicious November 4 celebrations were held the day after Iran agreed to renewed nuclear negotiations with the United States and European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18623570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/AP_21308366059758.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18623570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21308366059758-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami addresses the crowd during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy commemorating the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021.&nbsp; (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi gave a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-raisi-vows-no-retreat-nuclear-talks-with-major-powers-2021-11-04\/\"><span>defiant address<\/span><\/a><span> on state television on Thursday in which he pledged to \u201cstand against excessive demands which could damage our nation\u2019s interests.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Raisi said he would not budge from Iran\u2019s demand for unilateral and unconditional \u201clifting of all U.S. sanctions and neutralization of sanctions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe negotiations we are considering are result-oriented ones. We will not leave the negotiating table\u2026 but we will not retreat from the interests of our nation in any way,\u201d he declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Iran\u2019s chief negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, made the same point on Wednesday when <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/11\/3\/iran-nuclear-talks-with-world-powers-to-resume-on-november-29\"><span>agreeing<\/span><\/a><span> to restart \u201cthe negotiations aiming at removal of unlawful and inhumane sanctions on 29 November in Vienna.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe believe it remains possible to quickly reach and implement an understanding on a mutual return to compliance with the JCPOA by closing the relatively small number of issues that remained outstanding at the end of June when the sixth round concluded,\u201d the Biden State Department responded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regime organized massive rallies on Thursday to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran \u2013 the beginning of a 444-day hostage crisis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}