"Did you know that during the Iranian capture of the US embassy in Tehran over four-and-a-half decades ago, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-89), who rose to power during the 1978-79 revolution, ordered the freedom of Black embassy workers?

Identifying with their oppression in the United States, Khomeini viewed our people as victims of the US imperial system, rather than perpetrators of it."