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Occuppying an embassy which is technically US territory, and taking innocent civilians hostage can be seen as an act of war. Should the US have declared war and use naval and airforce assets to reduce Iran to rubble? Maybe even nukes? How would the war have been fought?
What if they occupy the Soviet embassy instead? I'm pretty sure the soviets would have invaded...
What if (my favorite scenario) they occupy both embassies (Soviet and US) ? Can we see a joint US and Soviet intervention in Iran?
Asgharzadeh later said there were five students at the first meeting, two of whom wanted to target the Soviet embassy because the USSR was "a Marxist and anti-God regime."