With replicas of missiles on display and effigies of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu hanging from a crane, thousands of Iranians commemorated on Tuesday the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Tehran.

Five months after a brief war with Israel that saw the US join in with strikes on key nuclear facilities, demonstrators chanted “Death to America, death to Israel!” and sang revolutionary songs in a particularly charged outing for the annual event.

Though the commemorations are held annually, “this year, the country is under a bit of pressure” from its two arch foes, said student Mohammad Hossein, 15, standing next to a friend whose shoes bore the trademark swoosh of American apparel giant Nike.

“We must be more visible this year so that the authorities, the army and others can feel at

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