Posted on 11/29/2011 11:18:17 AM PST by nuconvert
Iranian protesters illegally broke into two British Embassy compounds in Tehran today as police stood by idly, and the attack was broadcast live on Iranian television. It is unclear as yet whether British diplomatic personnel were harmed or taken hostage. Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency reported that six British officials had been taken hostage but withdrew the story from its website minutes later without explanation.
Iran’s rogue regime once again has exhibited a flagrant defiance of international law by failing to protect the embassy compounds, and it undoubtedly orchestrated the politically charged action to punish the British government for escalating sanctions against it and to shore up its eroding domestic political support.
The embassy attacks came after Iran’s parliament voted Sunday to expel the British ambassador and downgrade relations with London after it imposed sanctions on Iran’s central bank last week. Yesterday, Iran’s Guardian Council took unusually swift action to approve the legislation, which called for the British ambassador to be expelled within two weeks.
Both of these actions were green lights for the embassy attacks, which were conducted by young Iranians, some of whom clutched pictures of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. Others carried placards with a picture of Revolutionary Guards Quds Force Commander Qassem Suleimani.
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Look here!! Look here!!!
Don’t look at Isfahan.....look here
My Canadian friends are telling me the CTV is reporting six British diplomats were taken hostage at the Embassy.
If all this is true, it’s an act of war.
Gordon...Calling Gen. Gordon...
1979 all over again?
Sounds like they have been, briefly.
Wouldn’t be surprised
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