From a CBS/AP report:
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.” . . .
Iran’s state television network earlier showed video of dozens of protesters in the embassy compound, at one point burning a presumably-looted portrait of the Queen and a British flag. Many dozens more people, including many women clad in black veils as mandated by the Islamic nation’s laws, gathered outside the embassy compound’s fence.
Tuesday’s incident comes two days after Iranian parliament approved a bill that reduces diplomatic relations with Britain following London’s support of recently upgraded U.S. sanctions on Tehran.
The students clashed with anti-riot police and chanted “the Embassy of Britain should be taken over” and “death to England.” . . .
Iran’s state television network earlier showed video of dozens of protesters in the embassy compound, at one point burning a presumably-looted portrait of the Queen and a British flag. Many dozens more people, including many women clad in black veils as mandated by the Islamic nation’s laws, gathered outside the embassy compound’s fence.
Tuesday’s incident comes two days after Iranian parliament approved a bill that reduces diplomatic relations with Britain following London’s support of recently upgraded U.S. sanctions on Tehran.
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