whitehouse.gov - 11/4/2009
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The White House releases the following statement from President Obama:
Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in Tehran was seized. The 444 days that began on November 4, 1979 deeply affected the lives of courageous Americans who were unjustly held hostage, and we owe these Americans ...
guardian.co.uk - 11/4/2009
whitehouse.gov - 11/4/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in
Tehran was seized. The 444 days that began on...
November 4, 1979 deeply affected the lives of courageous Americans who were unjustly held hostage, and we owe these Americans and their families our ...
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Statement by President Barack Obama on Iran
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 11/1/2009
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It was near the end of a meeting
Wednesday between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a group...
of university students when the man who is Iran's highest political and spiritual authority asked if there were any other questions. He spotted...
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IRAN: Concern over fate of star student who spoke out to ...
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Oliver Willis —
... was elected President, and a great country became greater
* AP’s Liz Sidoti takes a break from fetching John McCain’s donut to do more GOP stenography
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Left I on the News —
... , I take note of President Obama's message on the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy in Iran. Obama incorrectly asserts that that "event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust, and confrontation," as if the U.S.-sponsored coup which installed the Shah 26 years earlier hadn't done precisely that. (He also claims, arrogantly, and equally incorrectly, that "We have heard for thirty years what the Iranian government is against; the question, now, is what kind of future it is for." Well, for starters, it's ...
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