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when San Francisco police answered the made a call from the Iranian consulate. It was shortly after noon, members of the San Francisco tax squad had to forcibly remove 50 young Iranians. Most of them are members of the Iranian Students Association. The young Iranians were protesting what

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they called the brutal dictatorship of the Shar of Iran on. A spokesman for the group said it was time to coincide with the visit to San Francisco of the Shah's twin sister, Princess Ashraf Pahlavi. Supervising police Captain Jeremiah Taylor told newsman What happened conspiracy is that

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they entered together to go into this building to commit this crime. They conspired together to do this. This wasn't just something. Then on the spur of the moment, obviously, over 50 people don't come out here and march into this embassy or this consulate here to perform

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this video. E Hey, Paul, Yours in E, uh, a group of demonstrators come out here came into the building. They've written slogans on the wall, both in a foreign language and an American language, uh, denouncing the Shah of Iran. They've destroyed property

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throughout the building. They've broken the windows. There has been some injuries uh, some of our officers were set upon by a group that were in the basement when two sergeants went down. There was 50 of them, were taken put into custody and have been sent down

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to the city prison. At present, it appears that will be booking them for conspiracy, burglary, and we'll en route to the Immigration Department on the assumption that most of them are foreign born and will be interested in by the immigration. What kind of a fight took

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place? The fight actually was in the office is trying Thio, take them and put them under control and bring them out. Before the officers got here, there was actually the people in the building were restrained by hate to say force. But they were actually restrained in

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order to allow these this group of people to have their way in the building, writing the slogans, painting the slogans on all the walls and then destroying the property. The police were taking no chances after seeing the considerable damage done to the interior of the building.

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The grounds around the Iranian consulate were carefully searched for explosive devices. None were found. One officer told me that it was purely precautionary. None of the 44 men and six women who were arrested were armed. They simply overpowered the Iranian staff members at the door and

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stormed into the consulate. It was all over within a half hour, by order of the Iranian officials, the police secured the building and no one was permitted inside after the arrests were made. This is Ed Arnold for eyewitness news at the Iranian Consulate in San Francisco.