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   Hello dear friends, this time I have come up with a historical blog about my dear country Iran. The blog is divided to two parts. The second part will be published tomorrow (God willing). About 10 months after the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution (1979), a number of university students (followers of the Imam Khomeini's line), because of the large US interventions in our country and creating various conspiracies by this country, decided to occupy the the US embassy in Tehran non-armed and sit-in there for 3 days.

Fig. 1   The famous image about the US embassy occupation by some university students

   But after entering to the embassy and occupying there, they encountered to an unexpected scene !! ,,, Yes, the US embassy had become a safe den for spying. They found a secret room With a door similar to the safe's door for transmitting information. In that room, there were many advanced radio communication devices. Figure 2 shows the photos of that room which were taken in that time after occupation.

Fig. 2   The secret room in the US embassy including some advanced radio communication devices for transmitting data and information.

   In the other room, there were a strip-shredder (i.e. a device for destroying paper documents and converting them into strips) and while occupying which lasted three hours, many of the classified spying documents had been converted to millions of paper strips by the embassy staff !! ,,, Figure 3, illustrates a strip-shredder device in the former US embassy and its output !

Fig. 3   The strip-shredder used for destroying the documents in the former US embassy.

   At last the embassy was completely occupied by them and about 60 American diplomats were arrested. After that, the revolutionary students with much effort reconstructed many of the shredded documents which took several months.

Fig. 4   Reconstruction of the shredded documents by the revolutionary students.

   Then the students, translated and published those reconstructed documents in 11 volumes with the name of : "Documents from the US espionage den" (each volume contains hundreds pages). "Espionage den" was a proper name for that seemingly embassy, after obtaining those spying documents from there and Imam Khomeini interpreted this occurrence (the occupation of the US espionage den) to "Second Revolution".

Fig. 5   The reconstructed classified documents were translated to Persian and published.

   After that time until now, the US hasn't had any embassy in our country Iran. The arrested US diplomats, after 444 days were released through diplomatic solutions and returned to their country. In these 444 days, the US, two times tried to release its diplomats via military invasion ways (like their Hollywood's films!) ,,, but unlike the good results at the end of all their films they couldn't do that. My second blog on this topic, is about one of these military invasions to our country. Nowadays, the former US embassy in Tehran, has become a revolutionary museum. The following images are related to this place in current time and the last three ones were downloaded from: The Daily Telegraph

Fig. 6   The secret room for radio communicating 

Fig. 7   The advanced radio communication devices for transaction of data and information. 

Fig. 8   The device for transmitting and receiving data and information.  

Fig. 9   The device for transmitting and receiving data and information.

Fig. 10   The coding room inside the embassy.

Fig. 11   The passport forgery section inside the embassy.

Fig.12   The glassy room, used for top secret negotiations.