Iran Opposition To Apologize To The U.S. For The Embassy Hostage Crisis 30 Years Ago

A group of pro-regime agitators took over the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, leading to a decisive break between Iran and the US Photo: AFP

Iran Opposition To Apologise To US For Embassy Siege -- The Telegraph

Leaders of Iran's opposition movement are to make an unprecedented apology to the US on the 30th anniversary of the storming of the American embassy in Tehran.

In a gesture likely to provoke fury among hardliners in the Tehran regime, they will apologise on Wednesday for the hostage crisis that gripped the world for 444 days and led to a decisive break between Iran and the US, which is now routinely denounced as "the Great Satan".

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My Comment: This public apology from Iran's opposition parties will gall the Iranian Government more than anything else. Their moral legitimacy comes from that crisis, any open debate on it will only serve to lose the legitimacy that they have in front of their own people.