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Iran President Says Trump Aiming To Bring Country 'To Its Knees'

People gathered across Iran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution (Credit: AFP)

Iran's president accused his US counterpart Donald Trump on Monday of seeking to bring the Islamic republic "to its knees" as the country marked the 1979 revolution that toppled the shah.

The revolution removed a pro-US government in Iran, and the subsequent hostage-taking of American diplomats in Tehran ushered in decades of hostility between the United States and Iran.

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