Britain Downgrades Diplomatic Ties With Iran; Orders London Embassy Shut
Britain said on Wednesday that it had closed its embassy in Tehran, withdrawn
all its diplomats and ordered Iran to do the same within 48 hours at its own
diplomatic mission in London in the worst rupture of relations in decades.
The measures were announced in Parliament by Foreign Secretary William Hague a
day after Iranian protesters shouting “Death to England” stormed the British
Embassy compound and a diplomatic residence in Tehran, tearing down the British
flag, smashing windows, defacing walls and briefly detaining six staff members
in what appeared to be a state-sponsored protest against Britain’s tough new
economic sanctions against Iran.
The attack was the most serious diplomatic breach since the traumatic assault on
the American Embassy after Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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