40 years on, Iranians recall US Embassy hostage crisis

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For those who were there, the memories are still fresh, 40 years after one of the defining events of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, when protesters seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and set off a 444-day hostage crisis. The consequences of that crisis reverberate to this day. Veteran Iranian photographer Kaveh Kazemi recalled snapping away with his camera