Posted on 07/03/2009 3:57:21 AM PDT by Son House
A top Iranian cleric says some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who is close to Iran’s supreme leader, has made the announcement in a Friday prayer sermon. He says the detained staffers “made confessions.”
Jannati does not say how many staffers will be tried or on what charges.
Earlier Iranian officials said all but one of the eight embassy personnel arrested on June 27 had been released, but European Union officials said they believed more than one was still being held.
Jannati is the head of the Guardian Council, a powerful body in Iran’s clerical rule, and is close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Religious leaders would not be able to put the British Embassy Staff on trial in the United States of America
“Religious leaders would not be able to put the British Embassy Staff on trial in the United States of America “
Thats because religious leaders in the USA would never even try. Well the non-muslim religious leaders wouldnt.
The Brits were making a little noise about closing up shop there. Today would be a good day to carry through with that.
What buffoon...
I find this rather odd since in countries run by dictators or oligarchies, the local staffs of foreign embassies are screened by the host government and in many cases, there are a number of these employees who work for the host government’s intelligence service.
It’s a pretty severe breach of diplomatic protocol to arrest *any* Embassy’s local national staff in any country for alleged “political” crimes.
What such an action says is that “Your embassy staff is not safe in our country.”
It’s a precursor to further and additional breaches of normal diplomatic protocol (e.g., what the Iranians did to the American Embassy in 1979).
The Brits and everyone else should simply pack up and leave. No embassy is safe when these protocols are thrown out the window.
My guess is they will be tried and convicted in a kangaroo religious court then sent back the Britain as “criminals”. Anything beyond that and Britain will have to take stronger action. A nasty letter or closing an Embassy would be in order then.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who is close to Iran's supreme leader, has made the announcement in a Friday prayer sermon. He says the detained staffers "made confessions."Jannati does not say how many staffers will be tried or on what charges. Earlier Iranian officials said all but one of the eight embassy personnel arrested on June 27 had been released, but European Union officials said they believed more than one was still being held. Jannati is the head of the Guardian Council, a powerful body in Iran's clerical rule, and is close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.I hope he's very close to Khamenei when the smart bomb hits.
Meddling?
Moscow opposes new sanctions on Iran
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99644§ionid=351020101
Moscow opposes imposing sanctions on Iran over what the West describes as a crackdown on protesters who illegally took to the streets following the country’s presidential election.
“We believe that sanctions against Iran over its internal political problems would be unlawful and counter-productive,” Xinhua quoted Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Andrei Nesterenko as saying on Thursday.
Nesterenko warned that such a move would provoke unwelcome events in the country and the region. He stressed that all disputes should be addressed through legal channels.
Didn’t know that.
Well then, they should be glad that Iran is a free and open state with a fantastic human rights record. :)
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