Iranian schoolgirls mark 1979 takeover of US embassy

Iranian schoolgirls demonstrated in Sistan and Baluchestan provinces on the anniversary on Tuesday of the 1979 takeover by Iranian students of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.

In a report on the demonstrations aired by Iran’s Hamoon TV, the girls told the reporter that they were celebrating the takeover of the “spies’ nest,” that it feels good to “punch America in the mouth,” that Iranian students can help annihilate Israel, and that being a student is like being a fighter in the eight-year Iran-Iraq War from 1980 to 1988.

The girls then held up signs that read “Down with U.S.A.” and chanted: “Death to America! Death to Israel!”