re: "When Will The Islamic Republic Apologize?"

Robert at Expat Yank ("one American Living in the South of England") is still waiting, as are the rest of us.

Money quote(s):

"(T)he U.S. had diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic at its inception. Those ceased when the Islamic Republic made relations impossible. How?

Americans are still waiting to hear “sorry” from the Islamic Republic for its having orchestrated the overrunning of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 in complete rejection of centuries-long diplomatic practices. The staff were taken hostage, threatened with death, and 52 of them were imprisoned in Iran until January 1981.

Iran was lucky, then, that the U.S. only broke off relations six months later, and did not declare war on the regime. U.S. restraint at that time was remarkable, and demonstrated how “slow to war” is the country."