impacts: Iran has remained defiant, saying it is confident it can weather the impacts, and that the US will fail to bring down Iranian oil imports to zero, according to The Guardian. But ordinary people, wary of the fluctuations of the currency and the rising prices of goods, are anxious. The new sanctions, which also aim to cut off Iran's banking sector from the global market, are timed to coincide with the anniversary of the 1979 storming by Iranian revolutionaries of the US embassy in Tehran, when angry students took 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. On Sunday, a state-organised rally took place in front of the former US embassy compound in central Tehran to mark the anniversary. Iran sanctions Khamenei says world opposes every Trump decision Read more Never threaten the Iranian people, Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran's elite revolutionary guards told people gathering in front of the former embassy, officially referred to as a den of spies . Do not make military threats against us, and do not frighten us with military threats, he added. The crowd held placards reading Down with USA and Down with Israel while others set US and Israeli flags on fire.
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