The world will be a better place without America. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, chairman of Iran's Majlis (parliament), made this statement Wednesday on the eve of the anniversary of the November 4, 1979, seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran by the Muslim Students Organization. This date is celebrated in Iran annually.
"The world would be a more beautiful place without America," the Majlis speaker was quoted by ISNA news agency as saying. - "The US, as the embodiment of global arrogance, has repeatedly acted against the will of nations over the past decades, resorting to coups, inciting civil wars, and creating extremist terrorist groups."
"Forty-plus years ago, the Iranian nation decided to fulfill its aspirations by undertaking a popular revolution and then occupying a spy nest in the American embassy," Ghalibaf pointed out. - "The people of Iran decided that the first person of the country would no longer listen to the orders of some second-rate American diplomat. On November 4, 1979, the Iranians proved to the world, by occupying the American embassy, that the era of coups in this land was over and the power of arrogance was like a straw in the storm compared to the will of the people. The US has imposed sanctions against Iran, created spy and sabotage networks, supported terrorists in an attempt to undermine our security, and tried to stifle the country's scientific progress, especially in the nuclear field."
"With its actions against Iran, it is as if America is warning the peoples of the world: if you too take the path of independent development, wars, sanctions and threats are waiting for you," Ghalibaf stressed. - "America knows that the peoples of the world are now ready to repeat the successes of the Iranian nation's fight against global arrogance four decades ago, and so it is trying to create problems in Iran itself. But the free people of Iran will emerge victorious this time as well."
Iranian students occupied the US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, taking 66 diplomats hostage, six more managed to escape. An attempt to free the diplomats by force failed and they did not leave Iran until 1981 after negotiations. The seizure of the embassy followed the Islamic Revolution and overthrowing the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a close US ally. The Shah had asked for US help in suppressing the protest movement in Iran, even the deployment of US troops was discussed. Students who occupied the US embassy demanded that Washington extradite the Shah, who had taken refuge in the United States.
On November 4 this year, according to IRNA news agency, mass demonstrations under the slogan "Epic of Resistance and Fighting Arrogance" and a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran will take place in 900 cities of Iran.
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Based on materials from TASS