Nov 6, 2001 Text of report by Iranian newspaper Norooz on 6 November
The head of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Records and the Propagation of the Values of the Holy Defence [Iran-Iraq war] has said: Those who say that the occupation of America's den of espionage [former US embassy in Tehran] was confined to the conditions in that period, and are expressing repentance today, should know that, if the American embassy existed today, in the present circum

stances, the revolutionary offspring of this nation would occupy it again.
According to the public relations office of the foundation, Ali Reza Afshar added: The conditions and necessities surrounding the occupation of America's den of espionage were not confined to that period alone; present-day conditions in society are undoubtedly similar. Because America's hostility and crimes are still continuing and every day that hostility becomes more widespread.