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.

Student Commemoration Day

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Iranians nationwide marking Student Day

Student Day is the martyrdom anniversary of several students of Tehran University on December 7, 1953 (16 Azar 1332 in the Iranian calendar) by agents of colonial powers in the Pahlavi era.

University of Tehran secures top prize in Landscape Architecture Awards 2025

A team from the University of Tehran has won the prestigious first prize in the Honors Award section of the 2025 World Landscape Architecture Awards, beating 161 university teams from 30 countries in a first for teams from West Asia.

Iranians mark US Embassy takeover anniversary with rallies in over 900 cities

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have gathered across Tehran and more than 900 cities nationwide to mark the anniversary of the 1979 US Embassy takeover, an event observed as the National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance.

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