The State Department launched a
virtual U.S. Embassy for Iran yesterday which has apparently already been
blocked by Iranian officials. There is another historical, virtual U.S. Embassy for Iran of sorts in the form of the collection of U.S. documents seized during the 1979 siege of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Copies of seized documents were published as a series called "Documents from the U.S. Espionage Den" volumes of which are available
online.
The publishers of the documents reportedly utilized skilled carpet weavers to reconstruct documents that had been shredded, a technique that would likely impress
DARPA.
Unclear whether there are any plans for similarly publishing documents
recently seized from the British Embassy in Tehran. For additional information on the publication of the U.S. embassy documents, see this
post by the Federation of American Scientists.
