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To: Busko
Here's another history lesson:

During the Islamic revolution of 1979, the U.S. embassy was actually the second major Western "landmark" that was sacked and occupied during the uprising. A special honor as a scholar in modern Iranian history goes to the Freeper who knows which building was first.

6 posted on 07/25/2015 6:57:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Alberta's Child
"Here's another history lesson"

Congratulations - you have invented the factless lesson.

24 posted on 07/25/2015 7:31:33 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Alberta's Child

US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Double honors to you if you can cite a source in English that even posits a connection between the elimination of the two regional American “listening posts” and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan immediately thereafter.


46 posted on 07/25/2015 9:53:43 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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