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More Clashes outside UK embassy in Iran
Iranian demonstrators clashed with security forces yesterday as they again tried to storm the British embassy in Tehran. Riot police made several baton charges 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." 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 allegations of the profanation of Shiite Muslim holy sites in Iraq by coalition forces. One cleric said "we are here to say to the English that those who are demonstrating here are Hezbollahi, and if we entered the embassy and cut off all your heads they would not be worth the head of one Muslim."Posted by: TS(vice girl) 2004-05-29 |
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