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A man walks past the main gate of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, where militant Iranian students seized on Nov. 4, 1979, believing the embassy to be a center of plots against Iran, and then held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, in Iran, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Iran's state TV dismissed the Oscar-winning film "Argo" on Monday as an "advertisement for the CIA" and some Iranians called the award a political statement by America for its unflattering portrayal of the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Wreckage of a US helicopter which crashed in 1980 during a failed US mission to free 52 American hostages held at the US embassy is placed on the gate. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
