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    If the flag incident is true then this appears to be a copy-cat incident of an earlier siege that took place at the Egyptian consulate in Yemen.

    Iranian hardliners storm UK embassy
    By Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran

    Published: December 30 2008 22:30 | Last updated: December 30 2008 22:30

    About 300 Iranian radicals stormed a British embassy building on Tuesday to protest at the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, briefly occupying it and raising a Palestinian flag, Iranian media reported.

    The move followed a speech this week by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in which he urged all Muslims to help Palestinians in any way they could and criticised Arab states for not backing up Gazans.

    Groups of Iranian students have staged protests outside the British embassy and the Egyptian Interests Section. But the storming of the British embassy’s residential and cultural compound marked the first time they had ventured into embassy territory.

    The embassy confirmed that the radicals “trespassed” but added “the embassy is back into our control now”. It said all embassy staff were safe.

    Protests outside embassies in Tehran are not unprecedented and usually happen in response to perceived assaults against Muslims, such as the 2006 publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

    But the last time an embassy was seized was in 1980, when Iranian revolutionaries took over the US embassy and held 55 diplomats hostage for 444 days.

    Iranian police intervened quickly to evict the radicals from the British embassy building. The embassy said it was “in touch with Iranian authorities”, without giving details.

    Fars news agency, a voice for radical groups in Iran, reported that the protest against Britain and Egypt would continue. Tabnak, a news website close to conservatives, reported that groups were calling for the closure of Egyptian and Jordanian diplomatic missions.

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3691f3fa-d...077b07658.html

  • #2
    Sometimes I wonder what goes through their heads. There's a conflict between Israel and Hamas at the moment, so storm the UK embassy.
    "Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Ironduke View Post
      Sometimes I wonder what goes through their heads. There's a conflict between Israel and Hamas at the moment, so storm the UK embassy.
      They crave attention.
      Cow is the only animal that not only inhales oxygen, but also exhales it.
      -Rekha Arya, Former Minister of Animal Husbandry

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      • #4
        They had to storm into something, the US and Israelis will never go there to open up embassies, tough luck for the UK embassy.

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        • #5
          Toss a daisy cutter outside the compound and slam the door. I wonder why this never happens here in the U.S. oh thats right were civilized and never stirred by hate filled preaching clerics nor their minions. Nothing but sheep.
          Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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          • #6
            The move followed a speech this week by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in which he urged all Muslims to help Palestinians in any way they could and criticised Arab states for not backing up Gazans.


            Somebody needs to toss that guy and his pathetic scope of what he calls religion in a very deep hole.;)
            Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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            • #7
              The rioters/protestors were students (according to the media) and had nothing to do with the regime or any government affiliate. The police came to break-up the protest and remove them from the British embassy.





              http://www1.farsnews.com/imgrep.php?nn=8710110015

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              • #8
                I wonder what their major will be.
                Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                • #9
                  The rioters/protestors were students.

                  Rioting and Protesting for a known terrorist organization and a scourge upon the earth as well as their bretherin.
                  Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by 1980s View Post
                    The rioters/protestors were students (according to the media) and had nothing to do with the regime or any government affiliate.
                    They're always "students".
                    “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                    • #11
                      Most of the "students" look like they graduated high school around the same time I did....(translation.....they're old)
                      "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories." Thomas Jefferson

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                      • #12
                        Its quite touching to see that they still think Britain is a big important country and we worthy of as much hate as America. In all their rants they always go on about America and Britain's evil plans, quite flattering
                        Nulli Secundus
                        People always talk of dying for their country, and never of making the other bastard die for his

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                        • #13
                          @ShinyCapstar,

                          Your nation is not hated, it is merely feared based on outdated old scars.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Tronic View Post
                            They crave attention.
                            Its about time they received it

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Shamus View Post
                              Most of the "students" look like they graduated high school around the same time I did....(translation.....they're old)
                              They are "Professional Students" with no day jobs and fairly comfortable life style.

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