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The new site includes a section on the former embassy, which officially closed in April 1980.

– at Vanitas, an exhibition in the former embassy of Sierra Leone in Portland Place where the Chapman brothers were ghoulish guests of honour.

Such protests occur every year outside the former embassy compound to mark the anniversary of the 1979 embassy takeover following the Islamic Revolution.

"At one point we were throwing money at anything with a pulse and a proposal," said a former embassy aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Ms. Zhang also said the Chinese government was sending a delegation to Kabul to inspect its former embassy there with a view to reopening it.

America became known as "the Great Satan", while the former embassy compound became a museum called "the den of spies" – in reference to the documents taken as evidence of US sabotage during the revolution.

A tour of Washington's foreign embassies included a real spying monolith, the former Soviet embassy on 16th Street, and now the Russian ambassador's house.

(Alikhani died in March of last year. The former US embassy continues to serve as a base for Iran's Revolutionary Guards corps).

The former American embassy in Tehran opened for the first time since 1979, with fresh anti-American sentiment on display.

He took out a loan of €10m for his house, the former German embassy, but stopped paying the mortgage.

Unusually, they were allowed to visit the former American embassy in Teheran where more than 60 diplomatic staff members were infamously held hostage by revolutionary students in 1979.