▲ Iranian President Hassan Lohani
Tehran's warning of hitting the same number of Iranian targets as 52 American hostages detained in Iran more than 40 years ago, Rohany, cited 290 Iranian plane deaths shot by US troops.
President Rohani wrote on Twitter: "People who refer to the number '52' should also remember the number '290' in the IR655. Never threaten Iran."
As the tensions between the United States and Iran have sharpened recently, they have been summoned to salvation decades ago.
President Trump has said on Twitter that if Iran retaliates against the killing of Commander Soleimani, he will strike back at 52 sites in Iran.
These 52 are the same number of Americans detained in the 1979 occupation of the US Embassy in Tehran.
On November 4, 1979, nine months after the Iranian Islamic revolution, hard-line, anti-American college students raided the US Embassy in Tehran, where they held hostages of 52 US diplomats and embassy staff for 444 days.
The United States has launched an operation that has used special forces to save them, but failed.
The college students who occupied the US embassy asked the US government to lead the recruits of King Mohammad-Leza Pahlavi, who was in the United States for the treatment of illness.
In 1980, the United States broke out with Iran and imposed economic sanctions.
The incident has had a profound impact on the Middle East, as the United States, threatened by an unprecedented embassy and hostage case, supported the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq to wage war with Iran.
The United States resolved the hostages with Iran in an 1981 agreement with Iran on the issue of respecting sovereignty without intervening in Iran in 1981.
There were no American deaths during the detention.
On July 3, 1988, US cruiser Vinscens shot down Iranian IR655, a flight from Dubai's southern port city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai, with a missile over the entrance to the Gulf.
The incident killed 290 passengers and crew on board.
The incident was explained at the end of the Iran-Iraq war because the US was mistaken for an Iranian fighter.
At the time, Iran could not purchase a new plane because of US sanctions, but the United States approved Iran Airline as an exception for the purchase of an Airbus airliner after the incident.
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