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Embassy Takeover Anniversary

An Iranian school boy covers his face in the style of Palestinian militants, with a head band with religious words, in front of a poster of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during an annual state-backed rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, marking the anniversary of take-over of the embassy in 1979 by militant students, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Iranian militant students stormed US embassy in Tehran and took 52 diplomats hostages for 444 days in protest to support of the U.S. to former pro-west monarchy King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. (AP Photo)

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