It’s going down!
Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, bringing down the Union Jack flag.
The students are protesting Iran’s parliament approval of a bill that reduces diplomatic relations with Britain, following London’s support of recently upgraded Western sanctions on Tehran over its disputed nuclear program.
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The mob moved into the diplomatic compound, breaking through after clashing with anti-riot police and chanting “Death to England.”
Outside the embassy, students from some universities and seminaries burned British flags and clashed with police.
The rally outside the Embassy, on a main street in downtown Tehran, included protesters carrying photographs of nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari, who was killed last year in an attack that Iran blamed on Israeli and British spy services.
Protesting in Iran is nothing new.
In 2006, demonstrators burned the Danish flag and attacked Danish and other Western embassies in Tehran in protest to the reprinting of a cartoon deemed insulting of the Prophet Muhammad in the Nordic country’s newspapers.
We pray everything remains peaceful in Iran and everyone remains safe.
