Iranian Students support American protestors. Iranian University Students Basij Committee expressed their support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The students reiterated their support for the movement in a news conference held in former US Embassy in Tehran where numerous espionage equipment and documents were found when the student took over the embassy on November 4, 1979.
In addition Iranian students showed their support for the Occupy Wall Street movement by holding their demonstration outside the Swiss Embassy in Tehran. Iran and the United States do not have diplomatic relations and the Swiss Embassy in Tehran hosts the US interests section in Iran. The students had some questions from United States officials.
Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations that originally began on September 17 of this year and quickly spread through out the United States and Europe. The protestor's slogan is "We are the 99 percent. According to the Congressional budget Office, between 1979 and 2007, incomes of the top one percent of Americans have grown by an average of 275 percent in contrast to the forty percent for the middle class Americans.
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