By Sarah Johnson PUBLISHED: 08:11 EST, 11 March 2013 | UPDATED: 12:47 EST, 11 March 2013 It was a symbol of U.S. supremacy that became a prison cell for 52 Americans. Now the hallways of the U.S embassy in Tehran, abandoned after it was stormed by a screaming mob during the 1979 hostage crisis, echo to nothing but the sound of soldiers' training boots. The rooms where secret state missions were planned have been covered in graffiti and pictures of Iranian revolutionaries have been casually propped against typewriters left behind by embassy workers. But apart from the most minor of cosmetic changes, the building that caused a global diplomatic crisis is frozen in time - and looks almost identical to its portrayal in the Oscar-winning Ben Affleck movie Argo.
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It was site of worst hostage crisis in US history when revolutionary students stormed in and took 52 staff hostage
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Of 90 people inside, six managed to escape and flee to other embassies, as dramatised in Oscar-winning film Argo
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The captured hostages were paraded around in front of cameras and kept in captivity for 444 days
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Today, the building is still the stage for demonstrations and the walls are covered with anti-US and Israeli murals
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