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On November 4, 1979, the United States embassy in Tehran was taken over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Forty years ago, on November 4, 1979, the United States embassy in Tehran was taken over by a group of people calling themselves \u201cStudent followers of the line of the Imam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifty-two U.S. embassy employees and diplomats were taken hostage for 444 days. Years later, the hostage-takers went on to become the most\u00a0senior officials of Iran’s regime<\/span><\/a>, including\u00a0Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/span><\/a>, former President of the regime. Many of the hostage-takers\u00a0still hold key positions in the regime. Some were wrongly dubbed as “moderates” by the West despite their loyalty to the regime’s agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meet the hostage-takers who now run #Iran<\/a>‘s government<\/p>\n

Read more: #NCRI<\/a> Special Report – US Embassy Hostage Takers Now Hold Top Positions in Iran’s Regime: https:\/\/t.co\/Ew3ZI9GzFj<\/a>#NoImpunity4Mullahs<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4xRSB4jzWb<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) November 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WHERE ARE THE\u00a0HOSTAGE-TAKERS TODAY?<\/h2>\n

\"ebtekar\"<\/p>\n

Masoumeh Ebtekar<\/a>, spokeswoman of the \u201cStudent followers of the line of the Imam\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Masoumeh Ebtekar, also known as \u201cSister Mary,\u201d was the spokeswoman for the\u00a0hostage-takers. She vehemently defended the Americans’ detention and demanded to be tried. She is now Iran’s Vice President for women and family affairs. In the first term of Hassan Rouhani\u2019s Presidency, she was also Vice President and head of the environmental preservation organization. In Mohammad Khatami\u2019s administration, she was Vice President and Head of the environmental preservation organization for several years.<\/p>\n

\"Abutalebi\"<\/p>\n

Hamid Abutalebi:<\/strong><\/p>\n

He is now Political Advisor to the President. For years, he held top positions in the Foreign Ministry, including the post of Deputy Foreign Minister for political affairs, the regime\u2019s Ambassador to a number of Western countries including Italy, Belgium, Australia, and the European Union (for 15 years). He was previously General Manager of Political Affairs in the Foreign Ministry (for 5 years), Advisor to the Foreign Minister (for 5 years), and member of Foreign Ministry\u2019s Strategic Council. In 2014, he was Rouhani\u2019s candidate to become the regime\u2019s representative to the United Nations in New York, but the U.S. government refused to grant him a visa due to his role in the\u00a0hostage-taking and in the 1993 assassination of Mohammad-Hossein Naqdi, representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy.<\/p>\n

\"Hossein-Sheikholislam\"<\/p>\n

Hossein Sheikholislam, council member of \u201cStudent followers of the line of the Imam\u201d and member of the team reviewing U.S. embassy documents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

He is now Advisor to the Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. Previously, for several years, he was Deputy for International Affairs to Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani. For 16 years, Sheikholislam was Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs. Subsequently, for three years, he became Iran\u2019s Ambassador to Syria, and after two terms as a Member of Parliament, he became Deputy Foreign Minister for Middle Eastern affairs.<\/p>\n

\"Mohammad-Ali-Aziz-Jafari\"<\/p>\n

Mohammad-Ali (Aziz) Jafari, one of the plotters of the U.S. embassy takeover:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Until April 21, 2019, for over 10 years, Major General Mohammad-Ali Jafari was Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). He is currently in charge of the \u201cBaqiollah Cultural and Social Headquarters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Hossein-Dehqan\"<\/p>\n

Hossein Dehqan<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

IRGC Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan was Iran\u2019s Defense Minister in Rouhan\u2019s first term (2013-2017), and he is now Advisor to the Supreme Leader on Defense Industries and Army Support. From 2004 to 2009, he was Vice President and chairman of the Shahid Foundation (Bonyad-e Shahid), one of the largest economic institutions in the regime.<\/p>\n

During Khatami\u2019s Presidency, he was Deputy Defense Minister. Prior to that, he was Deputy Chief of the IRGC Air Force.<\/p>\n

After the U.S. hostages were released, Hossein Dehqan joined the IRGC and went to Lebanon. In the years 1982 to 1984, he was in Beirut at the peak of terror attacks in Lebanon, especially massive explosions like the ones at the U.S. embassy and U.S. Marines barracks. He had acknowledged his key role in the formation of Lebanese Hizballah. Based on reports by U.S. media, he had a direct role in the 1983 bombing in Beirut, in which 241 U.S. marines were killed.<\/p>\n

\"Reza-Seifollahi\"<\/p>\n

Reza Seifollahi, a main plotter of the embassy takeover and member of the central council of the \u201cStudent followers of the line of the Imam\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

From 2013 to 2018, Reza Seifollahi was the Political Deputy of the Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC). From 2008 to 2013, He was deputy coordinator of the regime\u2019s Expediency Council. He was a senior IRGC commander, including the commander of IRGC Intelligence. When the Police, Gendarmeries, and Committees (Comite) were all combined into once force, Seifollahi was appointed as the first commander of the State Security Forces (SSF). During Khatami\u2019s Presidency, he was Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs.<\/p>\n

\"Habibollah-Bitaraf\"<\/p>\n

Habibollah Bitaraf, a main plotter of the embassy takeover and member of the central council of the \u201cStudent followers of the line of the Imam\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

From 1997 to 2005, he was Iran\u2019s Energy Minister. From 1986 to 1989, he was the Governor of Yazd Province. Also, for nearly five years, he was Deputy Minister of Energy for Educational Affairs.<\/p>\n

\"Ezzatollah-Zarghami\"<\/p>\n

Ezzatollah Zarghami<\/strong><\/p>\n

An IRGC Brigadier General, he became head of the state Radio and Television Corporation on the orders of the Supreme Leader, and from 2004 to 2014 he played a key role in the regime\u2019s propaganda machine. For years, Zarghami was the keynote speaker at ceremonies in front of the US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the embassy takeover.<\/p>\n

\"Alireza-Afshar\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alireza Afshar<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

After the hostages were released, Afshar joined the IRGC, and he has held important posts in the IRGC ever since, including as Chief of the IRGC General Staff, Commander of the Basij Force and Deputy Commander of the Armed Forces for Cultural Affairs.<\/p>\n

In Ahmadinejad\u2019s administration, Afshar was Deputy Minister of Interior for Political and Social Affairs.<\/p>\n

He is now head of the Supreme Delegation for the IRGC School of thought.<\/p>\n

\"Mohsen-Aminzadeh\"<\/p>\n

Mohsen Aminzadeh:<\/strong><\/p>\n

During Khatami\u2019s presidency, Mohsen Aminzadeh was Deputy Foreign Minister for Asian Affairs. He was a shadow minister when Kamal Kharrazi was Foreign Minister.<\/p>\n

Hossein Sharifzadegan<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

During Khatami\u2019s second term as President, Sharifzadegan was a member of \u201cthe Islamic partnership front\u201d and General Manager of the Social Security Organization and Minister of Social Security.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Mehdi Rahmati<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

During Ahmadinejad\u2019s Presidency, Rahmati was in charge of President\u2019s Office of Planning and Strategic Oversight<\/p>\n

Mohammdreza Behzadian-Nejad:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the first term of Ahmadinejad\u2019s Presidency, Behzadian-Nejad was Deputy Interior Minister for Economic Affairs. Later, he became head of the Commerce Office of Tehran.<\/p>\n

The seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran marked the beginning of the regime\u2019s policy of\u00a0hostage-taking and international blackmail, a policy that has become official and institutionalized as part of the foreign policy of this regime.<\/p>\n

For 40 years, the foreign policy of the mullahs\u2019 regime has been rooted in terrorism and blackmail. Today, it is recognized as the world\u2019s main state sponsor of terrorism. In the past 40 years, there has never been a time that this regime has not held onto hostages. Still, under different pretexts, Americans and other countries\u2019 citizens are kept in the Iranian regime\u2019s prisons as hostages.<\/p>\n

In the past 40 years, thousands of innocent people have fallen victim to the regime and its proxy groups\u2019 terrorism in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and even Latin America.<\/p>\n

Terrorism and\u00a0hostage-taking are a part of the DNA of Iran\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

The 1979 U.S. embassy takeover, which later was dubbed by regime officials as a \u2018revolution greater than the 1979 revolution,\u2019 had the goal of eliminating Iran\u2019s democratic forces, and more specifically the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI<\/a>), or\u00a0Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)<\/a>\u00a0from the political scene. Khomeini, the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader at the time, supported the act of the students, and Khamenei the current Supreme Leader, who at the time was Friday prayers\u2019 leader and Khomeini\u2019s representative, was one of the main supporters of the takeover; he went to the embassy and encouraged the students.<\/p>\n

It is no surprise then that just last week Khamenei, through his representative in the state-run Keyhan newspaper, called on regime-backed Iraqi militias known as the \u201cHashd al Shaabi,\u201d who are under the command of the\u00a0IRGC Qods Force<\/a>, to take over the U.S. embassy in Baghdad by the same model that took place in Tehran 40 years ago.<\/p>\n

Hossein Shariatmadari<\/a>, editor and representative of the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader in Kayhan, in the paper\u2019s October 30, 2019 editorial called for the takeover of the U.S. Embassy by the Iraqi militias.<\/p>\n

Shariatmadari, whose words reflect Khamenei\u2019s opinions, wrote: \u201cIn a previous note, by mentioning the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Iran, which the Imam called the \u201csecond revolution,\u201d the issue was raised in the context of a question that why the Iraqi revolutionary youths \u2026 are not ending the presence of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, which is the epicenter of conspiracy and espionage against the innocent people of Iraq!? And why are you not eliminating and throwing out this infected wound from your holy land? The takeover of the U.S. espionage center in Islamic Iran and eliminating that epicenter of conspiracy had many benefits for us. So why then are the revolutionary youths of Iraq depriving their holy land from these benefits?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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