Nov. 2009 photos: Protests in Iran on 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy’s seizure

Members of Basij militia burn a U.S. flag in an annual demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Wednesday.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

An Iranian student holds a poster of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and the late supreme leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as she walks past a mural outside the former U.S. Embassy.  (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)

An Iranian student uses a flag to veil her face during a demonstration marking the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover.  (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)

Iranian students flash the victory sign and hold their national flag during a rally outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Wednesday.  (Behrouz Mehri / AFP / Getty Images)

Iranian protesters hold a British flag during a rally in Tehran on Wednesday to mark the storming 30 years ago of the American Embassy by Iranian students. Thousands of Iranians staged the noisy anti-U.S. rally in central Tehran as riot police armed with batons and firing tear gas moved on as several hundred opposition supporters attempting to stage an antigovernment protest.  (Behrouz Mehri AFP / Getty Images)