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NO ACCESS IRAN/ NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN / NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN / NO ACCESS MANOTO TV / NO ACCESS IRAN INTERNATIONALTehran, Feb 11 (EFE/EPA).- Hundreds of thousands of Iranians on Tuesday commemorated the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution with marches across the country and calls for unity and revenge against the United States for its recent killing of a top Iranian general in Baghdad. (Camera: MARINA VILLÉN/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH Editor: AYEESHA HOLDER)
Demonstrators gather outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of its takeover in 36 years ago. Diane Hodges reports.
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