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  A pro-government Iranian demonstrator attends the annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, November 4, 2009. The protests were part of commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students in 1979. (Vahid Salemi, AP)
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  School girls attend the annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran. The poster shows late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini. The protest soon turned violent with riot police wading in with batons and teargas to break up opposition protests. (Vahid Salemi, AP)
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  Students who are members of Basij militia, which is a unit of the Revolutionary Guard, burn a US flag. Witnesses said the violent clashes occurred at Haft-e-Tir square in the heart of the capital where several hundred opposition supporters had gathered mid-morning to stage a demonstration. (Vahid Salemi, AP)
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  Riot police roared in on motorcycles and fired teargas at the protesters, who were chanting "Death to the dictator". When they refused to disperse, police moved in with batons, beating and arresting dozens of people as groups of pro-government hardliners stood by chanting "Death to America". (Vahid Salemi, AP)
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  Members of Basij militia set a US flag on fire. Staging brief demonstrations during which they chanted "Death to the dictator", and "Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein" - in praise of main opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi - the mainly-young protesters quickly moved on to new sites when police tried to disperse them. (Vahid Salemi, AP)
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  Smoke fills the air after security police fired tear gas at the protesters. (AP)
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  A protester runs from security police. (AP)
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  Members of the Basij militia burn a US flag outside the former US embassy in Tehran. (Behrouz Mehri, AFP)
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  An image grab taken from Iran's official Arabic-language Al-Alam TV shows the crowds of people who gathered at the rally. (AFP)
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  Anti-government protesters chant slogans on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the US Embassy takeover. (AP)
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  A woman holds the national flag during the rally. (Behrouz Mehri, AFP)
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  A member of the Basij militia hold portraits of Iran's late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left), and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali khamenei (right), during the rally outside the former US embassy. (Behrouz Mehri, AFP)
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  A woman walks past an anti-US mural painted on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran. (Behrouz Mehri, AFP)
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  Students wave their national flag and hold anti-US slogans outside the former US embassy. (Behrouz Mehri, AFP)
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  A schoolboy holds a US dollar and a poster showing Iranian students in 1979 seizing the US embassy. (Behrouz Mehri, AFP)
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  An Iranian clergyman walks past a mural of a revolver bearing the colours of the US national flag on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran. (Behrouz Mehri, AFP)
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  A protester holds a portrait of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the rally. (Behrouz Mehri, AFP)
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