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I've been speaking to Vice President Masume Iptakar. She first became famous in

1979 as the spokesperson for the students holding the hostages at the American embassy.

36 years later, Iran has signed a nuclear deal with six world powers,

but really it's all about Iran and the US.

I asked Mrs Iptikar how she felt about the relationship between the two countries.

Well this is ultimately a step forward. This agreement is a step for the future of not only Iran and the region, but for peace at the global level.

Going back to history in order to understand what happened 36 years ago,

I think it's important to maybe go back even more than that to 1953 when based on a CIA engineered

Kudita Dr. Mossadir, a nationalist prime minister in Iran was overthrown and that took Iran to about 25 years of tyranny and dictatorship.

Those were very dark and very difficult years for the Iran. years of

the dictatorship. Those were very dark and very difficult years for the Iranian nation.

And the Islamic Revolution was in a sense a revolt against not only

dictatorship and tyranny, but also against colonial and imperial rule, subjugation of other nations by imperial nations.

So what students did... nations by Imperial Nations.

So what students did in that year in 1979

was actually a reaction to the entrance of the Shah,

which meant that probably. The arrival of the Shah which meant that probably the arrival of the Shah the

arrival of the Shah in the United States and for students they had many reasons to

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