Hardline Iranian students have broken into the British Embassy in Tehran

[Bosonic]

Source: AP

Currently just an AP newsflash. Updates to follow no doubt.

@AP BREAKING: Hardline Iranian students have broken into the British Embassy in Tehran. -EC
http://twitter.com/#!/AP/status/141493203080724480


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Iran protesters break into UK embassy in Tehran

Protesters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have broken into the UK embassy compound during an anti-British demonstration, reports say.

Militant students are said to have removed the British flag, burnt it and replaced it with the Iranian flag.

They were also shown live on Iranian state TV throwing stones at embassy windows and breaking them.

The move comes after Iran agreed to reduce ties following the UK's decision to impose further sanctions on Iran.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15936213

[drm604]

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[drm604]

2. Wow. Deja Vu.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Here we go again.

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[dipsydoodle]

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Hardline Iranian students have broken into the British Embassy in Tehran, the Associated Press reports.

Update at 7:35 a.m. ET: Dozens of hard-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran today, bringing down the British flag and throwing documents from windows, the AP reports. The students clashed with anti-riot police and chanted "the Embassy of Britain should be taken over" and "death to England."

Original post: The attack came after a crowd of about 1,000 people gathered in front of the building for an anti-British demonstration, CNN reports.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/11/-iranian-students-break-into-british-embassy-in-tehran/1?csp=34news

[Eugene]

5. AP: Hard-line Iranian students storm British Embassy in Tehran amid rising diplomatic tensions

Source: Associated Press

Hard-line Iranian students storm British Embassy in Tehran amid rising diplomatic tensions

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, November 29, 8:33 AM

TEHRAN,Iran — Dozens of hard-line Iranian students have stormed the British Embassy in Tehran, bringing down the British flag and throwing documents from windows.

The students clashed with anti-riot police and chanted “the Embassy of Britain should be taken over” and “death to England.”

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/hard-line-iranian-students-storm-british-embassy-in-tehran-amid-rising-diplomatic-tensions/2011/11/29/gIQANjfK8N_story.html

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Students have raised the Iranian flag over the embassy...

...waiting for the staff to be paraded out, blidfolded in 3, 2, 1...

[Sanity Claws]

7. Any hostages?

This seems like a bad case of deja vu.

Wonder whether we will arms for hostages again.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. 6 hostages claimed for a short time, then withdrawn

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency said protesters took six British diplomatic staff hostage from an embassy compound in the north of the city but it withdrew the story from its website minutes later without giving any explanation.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/11/29/uk-iran-britain-embassy-idUKTRE7AS0VD20111129

[Bosonic]

14. Iranian police secure release of six British embassy staff taken hostage by hardline students

Iranian police secure release of six British embassy staff taken hostage by hardline students -Fars agency
http://twitter.com/#!/Reuters/status/141539939534905345

[AngryAmish]

8. This is an act of war

Mine the harbors, blow their bridges.

[Uben]

9. Damn! Cheney is already sending WMDs to be found.

He'll be damned if that is gonna happen again.

[BridgeTheGap]

11. News Alert: Tehran Protesters Storm British Embassy

Source: New York Times

Iranian Students Storm British Embassy in Tehran, Associated Press Reports

In the latest sign of deteriorating relations with the West, around 20 Iranian protesters entered the British Embassy compound in Tehran chanting "death to England," tearing down a British flag and ransacking offices, news reports said.

The episode came a day after Iran enacted legislation on Monday to downgrade relations with Britain in retaliation for intensified sanctions imposed by Western nations last week to punish the Iranians for their suspect nuclear development program. Britain promised to respond "robustly."

The British Foreign Office in London said it was "aware of the reports" from Tehran about its embassy on Tuesday, but declined to comment further.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/world/middleeast/tehran-protesters-storm-british-embassy.html?emc=na


Read more: http://worldheaders.blogspot.com/2011/11/news-alert-tehran-protesters-storm.html

[bigworld]

12. Reuters says 6 hostages taken

[Muskypundit]

13. How do 20 unarmed protesters storm a western embassy.

In Iran of all places. Do they not have embassy guards? There is more to this story.

[peacetalksforall]

15. I am going to say it is "cooked up".. Our war panting drivin by Israel, US, Europe,

and probably with the approval of Canada and Australia, has been designed to create little incidents that provide that are insulting to us instead of one big incident that justifies the bombing of Iran?

No Second Pearl Harbors here, just a pile on of little incidents.

Until we know who the protestors are I vote that they are agent-provacateurs and may not even be Iranian.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. MPs chanting 'Death to Britain' indicates there is genuine anti-British feeling in Iran

Why complicate things by pretending that any anti-British demonstration must be bogus, when the MPs (pretty safe to assume there aren't multiple British agents in there) show there is such feeling?

[BadtotheboneBob]

19. "... may not even be Iranian"?

Oh, please. What drivel.

[The Magistrate]

21. This, Sir, Takes The Mustard For Stupidest Post Of the Day

Try and inform yourself at least minimally about topics before comment on them....

[peacetalksforall]

26. To Muriel, Badtothebone, and Magistrate

You all took a similar position. I have mine. Time will tell.

Take countries panting to bomb Iran and the now the growing history of the use of provocateurs, plus the winner of all time - the 2nd Pearl Harbor and I should bury it all in the sand and believe every press release?

As I said - we'll see. We continue to learn the story behind the set-ups from plots all over the globe - Cuba, Timor, Spain, but we as mere citizens are supposed to know precisely what is true and what is not on the day it is reported?

[msanthrope]

28. Right. Because it's never happened before in that country.

I suppose a 1,000 agent provocateurs got snuck into the country???

[BadtotheboneBob]

30. LOL! Yeah! And the Revolutionary Guard just stood back...

... and let them do their thing in the heart of Tehran. I have no doubts that this was orchestrated by the Mullahs.

[Posteritatis]

29. Because Iranian protestors have such a pristine record on that front. (nt)

[Bosonic]

17. There seems to be video of a portion of it

Although I must confess the bank of cameras make it look a little like a press conference, which is a bit odd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_7lKN7U1pwo

[Bosonic]

18. There's still a bit more paper flinging scheduled

Iranian protesters again enter main British embassy compound in Tehran
http://twitter.com/#!/Reuters/status/141552358986481664

[McCamy Taylor]

20. Someone really wants that Iranian oil...enough to stage another embassy take over.

[closeupready]

25. If so, I think this is less about oil and more about their nuclear facilities.

nt

[defendandprotect]

31. +1 --

[pampango]

22. Aljazeera: Iranian protesters storm UK embassy

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/20111129132554123213.html

Dozens of young Iranian men have entered buildings inside the British embassy compound in Tehran, throwing rocks, petrol bombs and burning documents looted from the offices. The semi-official Fars news agency said that earlier in the day, security forces were trying to eject the protesters, who were a minority from a larger group staging an anti-UK demonstration outside the compound.

Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Tehran, said that the men, who had been cleared out of the embassy, had entered the embassy grounds for a third time. The men said that they would not leave until they get direct orders to do so from the Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hossein Khamenei, said Jabbari.

Our correspondent said that the police and various ministries had prior knowledge of the protest, which was organised by the student arm of the Basij armed group. "Any such action of this could scale can never be independent in the Islamic Republic. These gatherings are always approved by higher officials," said Jabbari.

In an appearance on state television on Sunday, Sardar Mohamad Reza Naghdi, the commander of the Basij, said that the unit was "counting the moments" until it could strike against "Zionist forces".

Iran's Guardian Council approved a bill on Monday to downgrade Iran's ties with the UK, one day after the Iranian parliament approved the measure, compelling the government to expel the British ambassador in retaliation for the sanctions. In parliament in Tehran on Sunday, a politician had warned that Iranians angered by the sanctions could storm the British embassy as they did to the US mission in 1979.

[Odin2005]

23. Holy deja vu!

[drm604]

24. Sounds like it may be over.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/29/world/meast/iran-demonstrations/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Police have succeeded in getting all the students inside the British Embassy compound to leave, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday evening. A number of the students were arrested while leaving the compound, Fars said.