A look on the history of US meddling in Iran
On November fourth, a group of students took over US embassy two weeks after the admission of Mohammad Reza Shah by the United States for what was announced as medical treatment, Iran became the scene of massive anti-US protests.
Soon after, a group of students decides to take over the US embassy in Tehran. The US picks this day to re-impose sanctions on Iran with the aim of a regime change. There were a couple of reasons that prompted those students to do what they did.
Firstly, US interference in Iranian affairs was so widespread, it even included determining the local officials. Secondly, perhaps the 1953 coup de tat against Prime Minister Mosaddeq's government dealt the heaviest blow to US credibility with the Iranian people.
While the US and some other countries condemned the move, most of the political groups in Iran supported it particularly after Imam Khomeimi threw his weight behind the students.
Embassy staffers began destroying all the documents by feeding them to a shredder. Still the students managed to painstakingly piece the shreds together and recover sensitive information. In one document, an embassy staff member, a man named John Graves, suggested a plan to his Washington masters that included creating chaos in Iran and toppling the fledgling revolution.
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