After 30 years since the closure of U.S. Embassy in Tehran, President Barack Obama felt the need to re-open its representative to get closer to the Iranian people. To that end, the U.S. opened an embassy in the virtual world aka virtual embassy.

Reporting from the pages of The Telegraph, Tuesday, December 6, 2011, which addressed iran.usembassy.gov embassy is using two languages, English and Parsi. In these sites, there is a video featuring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, explained why the U.S. chose instead to build a virtual embassy in Tehran.

Clinton said, the site serves to reconnect the dialogue between the U.S. and Iranian citizens who lost since 1979. "As the U.S. and Iran have no diplomatic relations, we lost an important opportunity for dialogue with you, the people of Iran. This will be our mode of communicating openly and without fear of policy, culture, and the American people," Clinton said.

Although referred to as the "embassy", but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the site says that the page is not an official diplomatic mission, as well as the U.S. representative to Iran.

This is the second way of approaching the U.S. in the Iranian people. Earlier this year the U.S. State Department made a Twitter account and Facebook with the language of Persia. With these accounts, they hope to get input or feedback from the people of Iran.

Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran severed in 1979 when 52 Americans were taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran. They were held for 444 days during the Iranian revolution is underway.

To facilitate their citizens in Iran, the U.S. Embassy ride in Switzerland. Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy building used by the government of the famous Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a training center. On its walls inscribed with anti-American propaganda murals.