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About 75 people were arrested almost all of them Iranians. Some had obviously been roughed up. The Iranian flag was burned and the crowd, which had now grown
to more than 1,000 cheered
to more than 1,000 cheered
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About 75 people were arrested
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almost all of them Iranians.
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Some had obviously been roughed up.
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The Iranian flag was burned
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and the crowd, which had now grown
to more than 1,000
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cheered.
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Movie Summary
November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour sit-in to protest imperialism, turned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 44...