photos of iranian Embassy siege

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The gunmen, members of an persian Arab group campaigning for Arab national sovereignty in the southern persian region of Khuzestan Province, took 26 people hostage—mostly embassy staff, but also several visitors as well as a police officer who had been guarding the embassy.

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