Female members of the Iranian paramilitary Basij force, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard stand in formation as a woman photographs them in a rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Militant Iranian students seized the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, believing the embassy to be a center of plots against Iran, and then held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The US severed diplomatic ties in response, and the two countries have not had formal relations since.
Vahid Salemi Associated Press