Imam Khomeini: It is unfounded expectation that they sit and watch, while foreigners continue with ...

Sahifeh-ye-Imam. V 10. P 348

The young students are the hope of this nation

A day to oppose global arrogance, national struggle against aggressive powers

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.”

US embassy takeover marked ‘strategic choice’ between resistance, surrender

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the National Day of the Fight against Global Arrogance, also known as the National Student Day, represents the nation’s strategic choice between resistance and submission.

Imam described takeover of US embassy by students as Revolution greater than the first revolution

Student Commemoration Day

Iran won't bow to coercion or accept imposed demands: President Pezeshkian

Pezeshkian condemns Western double standards, failed military aggression and economic pressure on Iran, while urging Muslim nations to unite against Israeli aggression.

Imam’s order turned the siege into a problem to be solved