Some students attacked British Mission in Iran

The police evicted the enclosure and the vicinity of the British Embassy in Tehran, once the Legation was yesterday three rounds of Islamic students who were protesting against new sanctions imposed by London to Iran.

According to several media Iranian, the situation in the area of the British, located to the North of Tehran, Embassy normalized about 20: 15 local time, when the agents loaded the students, who had begun his concentration to the Legation at 14: 00 time local.

Previously, according to Fars, the subcomandante in the police Iran, general Ahmad Reza Radán, moved to the Embassy and gave an ultimatum to students in calling them to leave the compound and dissolve the concentration.

Events have occurred after the decision of Iran to reduce its relations with London because of the new British sanctions against the country by its nuclear program, which led to groups of u000aultra-conservative students to concentrate against the British Embassy in Tehran

After 15: 30, dozens of demonstrators clashed with police guarding the concentration, jumped the portalón located in the wall surrounding the Embassy and, after lowered the British flag and hoisted the Iranian in the mast of the building, burned the flag of the United Kingdom.

Then, they entered the premises, they plundered abundant documentation, her thrown through the Windows and, according to the local agency Fars, also destroyed a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of England.

The local news agency Mehr, the Embassy staff had been evacuated before the incident.

AFP, however, the Fars Agency indicated that students detained during the afternoon six unidentified personnel of the British Embassy, which were released by the cops co. and members handed over to a representatives of the United Kingdom past the u000a19: 00

About 1800, a new group of Islamist students stormed the Embassy for the second time and sacked and destroyed some documents in their premises, when dozens of students were arrested in that

This radicalized the position of the protestors, who demanded the release of their colleagues.

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