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Iranians clash with police outside British embassy
Trying to do that hostage thing again, are they?
Iranian demonstrators clashed violently with security forces as they again tried to storm the British embassy in Tehran. Riot police made several baton charges Friday to push back a crowd of more than 300 protestors trying to push its way towards the main gate of the embassy compound. Several demonstrators were hurt, while the crowd threw stones and firecrackers at the embassy. "Death to the United States" and "Death to England" were among the slogans chanted, as some shouted "we await the order of the Guide (supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) to attack."
| I don't think it's going to come, boyz. At least not publicly... |
It was the sixth such demonstration against the British embassy in 11 days in protest at the actions of the US-led coalition in Iraq, in which Britain is a key component. The demonstrators, mainly young Islamists, are particularly incensed by reports of the profanation of Shiite Muslim holy sites in Iraq by coalition forces. One cleric who spoke said "we are here to say to the English that those who are demonstrating here are Hezbollahi (of the party of God), and if we entered the embassy and cut off all your heads they would not be worth the head of one Muslim."
| They sure do like that idea of lopping off heads, don't they? Is that some sort of fixation? |
Khamenei had declared Friday as a day of mourning for what he said has been the profanation by US forces of Shiite holy sites in Iraq and atrocities committed there.
Posted by: Fred 2004-05-28 |
