And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus: ‘There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king’s laws; therefore it profiteth not the king to suffer them. If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.’ (Esther 3:8-9)
Thousands of Iranian gathered in front of the former US Embassy in Teheran on Monday to commemorate the 1979 seizure of the building, according to the Jerusalem Post. Chants of “Death to America” and “Down With Israel” rung out regularly throughout the celebration.
Footage broadcast live on state television showed what appeared to be a crowd of several thousand and the walls of the embassy compound, not used since the seizure, plastered with large posters intent on showing supposed deceptions of the United States.
“Students are alert and hate America,” “Our blood in our veins, a gift for our leader” and “Down with Israel,” the crowd’s chants included, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported.
“Thirty-four years ago, our nation showed the realities to the world, that American embassies are a place of espionage and hatching plots,” hardline war veteran and former chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said in an address to the crowd.
“The capture of the nest of spies showed that the revolution was on the right path,” he said, in remarks carried by the official news agency IRNA.
