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The shredded U.S. Embassy files that Jiang says students reconstructed and read as proof of U.S. control over Shah-era Iran.
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Embassy documents
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Embassy and took it over and held 53,000 people. These were the three Americans as hostages. Okay? And they demanded the Shah be returned..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Embassy and took it over and held 53,000 people. These were the three Americans as hostages. Okay? And they demanded the Shah be returned..."
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The reconstructed embassy documents convinced the students, in Jiang's telling, that the U.S. Embassy had directed Iranian policy, repression, and the 1953 coup against the democratically elected government.
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"Embassy and took it over and held 53,000 people. These were the three Americans as hostages. Okay? And they demanded the Shah be returned..."
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"...And this is the fastest, most effective way to destroy your documents. And there are about like tens of thousands of pages. Can you..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central move: the crash was probably an accident, but if it was not, Jiang asks who had opportunity, motive, and the most to gain.
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