In 1979, a group of Iranian university students took over the US embassy, which they maintained had turned into a center of espionage aimed at overthrowing the Islamic Republic in Iran following the country’s Islamic Revolution earlier in 1979.
Imam Khomeini stressed, “I have said it times and again that takeover of the US embassy by Muslim youth and students was a natural reaction to the harm being done to our people by America.”
The 13th of Aban is also known as the day of national struggle against global arrogance which forms the basis of the primary and main origin of thinking and movement of confrontation and conflict with arrogant powers.
In 1979, a number of Muslim students in Iranian universities followed Imam Khomeini's anti-arrogance policies and due to the fundamental and pervasive role of the United States in creating unrest in Iran and its repeated conspiracies to overthrow the newly established Islamic Republic.
Occupied the US embassy, which had become a spy nest. This movement of students in the first year after the fall of the Pahlavi government influenced the political changes and events related to the revolution inside and outside the country.
The arrogant regime of the West has made every effort to inflict blows on the Islamic Republic in any way possible, many examples of which can be found during the years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, from war to sanctions.
It is observed that in this way it can prepare the ground for the decline and collapse of the Islamic system, but these days and the events that took place in them make the nation stronger day by day in the face of such hostile efforts.
That is why now, a day like 13 Aban has become a symbol that teaches the great lesson of arrogance to the people.