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Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, considered the attack on the Iranian embassy in London to be the British government's response to the purchase of 14 billion pounds of weapons by the Saudi crown prince from this country and said: "He coughed up 14 billion pounds in London, which naturally had to be answered in some way, so that's it in a very ...
The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate in South Kensington, London. The gunmen, Iranian Arabs campaigning for sovereignty of Khuzestan Province , took 26 people hostage, including embassy staff, several visitors, and a police officer who had ...
The murder of Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, occurred on 17 April 1984, when she was fatally wounded by a shot fired from the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London, by an unknown gunman. Fletcher had been deployed to monitor a demonstration against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and died shortly
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British police say four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at a London event marking the death of President ...
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Following the 2011 attack on the British Embassy in Iran, the British government expelled all Iranian embassy staff and closed the embassy in protest, alleging government support for the attack. [4] Between 2011 and 2014, Iranian interests in the UK were represented by the Omani Embassy. [5]
The demonstrations grew bigger and more heated than the 1999 student protests. [22] Al Jazeera English described the 13 June situation as the "biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution." It also reported that protests seemed spontaneous without any formal organization. [23] Two hundred people protested outside Iran's embassy in London on 13 June ...