Iran held rallies on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the 1979 storming of the US embassy.
General Hossein Salami, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, spoke in Tehran, where he promised that Iran would eventually defeat Israel and the United States.
“We will eventually defeat them, we will see it in the scenes to come.”
In Tehran, thousands of people chanted “death to America” and “death to Israel” at the entrance to the former US embassy.
Some carried images of senior officials from Iran-allied militant groups who were killed, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Crowds at state-organized rallies chanted that they were ready to defend the Palestinians.
On November 4, 1979, after the fall of the last shah of Iran, student supporters of the Islamic Revolution stormed the United States embassy in Tehran, accused of being a “nest of spies.”
They demand the extradition of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi to stand trial in Iran.
The crisis ended after 444 – with the death, in Egypt, of the deposed sovereign, and the release of 52 American diplomats.
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