Iran accuses West of meddling
Next to a banner showing late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, a satirized Statue of Liberty is placed at the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. In 1979, militant Iranian students who believed the embassy was a center of plots against the Persian country held 52 Americans hostage 444 days. The US severed diplomatic ties in response, and the two countries have not had formal relations since. The Associated Press
