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On the recordJuly 15, 2014
One of the very first acts of terror of this current regime in Iran was responsible for, after the '79 Islamic revolution, the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen recalls the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure as an early act of Iranian terrorism.

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