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| UK embassy staff secretly managing unrest: Iran | |
| 2009-07-02 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that one of three local British embassy staff still in detention had had a "remarkable role" in last month's post-election unrest in the Islamic Republic, according to a semi-official news agency. Five of the detained Iranian staff at the British embassy in Tehran were freed while four were still being held for questioning, according to British officials. Wednesday's Fars news agency report suggested that one more person had also been freed.
It said another embassy employee had been a "main element behind the riots" but that she had been freed because she enjoyed diplomatic immunity. The same news agency first revealed the detentions of what it said was eight British embassy staff on Sunday, saying they were accused of stirring unrest after Iran's disputed June 12 election, which moderate opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad say was rigged in his favor. Iran has accused Western powers, but especially Britain, of inciting street protests and violence and the two countries have exchanged tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions. Britain has rejected the accusations. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I wonder if anybody revealed to the Mullahs the theory that Brits are descendants of the ten lost tribes? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-07-02 07:35 |