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Photos: Iran marks US embassy takeover with rallies against US, Israel
Iran marked the 47th anniversary of the 1979 US embassy takeover with mass rallies in Tehran, where crowds burned US and Israeli flags and chanted anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans. Officials including Tehran's mayor and the judiciary chief claimed the US and Israel had suffered "decisive defeats," citing recent battlefield developments and US midterm elections. The anniversary comes amid a war launched by the US and Israel against Iran on February 28 in which Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed.