Iran Student Leader Says He Regrets 1979 U.S. Embassy Attack
Demonstrations outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran, after it was seized by revolutionary students, 1979.
Photographer: Kaveh Kazemi/Hulton Archive via Getty Images
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Tehran, Iran (AP) -- His revolutionary fervor diminished by the years that have also turned his dark brown hair white, one of the Iranian student leaders of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover says he now regrets the seizure of the diplomatic compound and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed.
Speaking to The Associated Press ahead of Monday's 40th anniversary of the attack, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh acknowledged that the repercussions of the crisis still reverberate as tensions remain high between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.