“The documents from the US den of espionage revealed that the American embassy in Tehran was more of a CIA station with intelligence and operational missions than a diplomatic mission,” the IRGC said in a statement on Monday.

“The takeover represented a strategic choice between two paths: resistance, dignity and independence versus compromise, submission and surrender,” it added.

The IRGC said the embassy documents showed that US diplomacy served as a cover for “infiltration, deception, subversion and intelligence gathering to strike at the right moment.”

The statement added, Washington’s “pattern of intervention, pressure, deception and threats” toward Iran today proves that Iran’s enmity with the US is not a misunderstanding but a structural conflict of interests, stemming from the US-backed 1953 coup in Iran, continuing through the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the 47 years that followed.