Nigel Howard.Evening Standard
The government of Iran arrested 9 members of the British Embassy accusing them of taking part in anti-goverment demonstrations after they were filmed by a secret camera that had been placed, unbeknownst to embassy members, inside the British embassy,
Last week Iran and Britain each expelled two diplomats and Iran has recalled its ambassador to Great Britain, an act considered extremely serious in diplomatic circles.
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a statement calling the British government the most treacherous in the world.
According to sources at the Daily Mail, photos obtained by another British newspaper, the Evening Standard, showed pictures of British embassy staff taking part in the demonstrations. The camera, pictured here, was placed in an attic window and trained on the street.
Britain has accused Iran of "harrassment and intimidation" in response to the arrests.Britsh Foreign Secretary MIllband has lodged a protest and called the arrests "unacceptable" but has not gotten a response from the Iranian government .
As tensions increase between Iran and other European countries Obama remains essentially on the sidelines, continuing to issue standard statements of condemnation against violence though Ahmadinejad also accused Obama of meddling in Iran's election.
Obama has had no comment to date about the arrests of the members of the British embassy.
UPDATE: Iran has released 5 members of the British embassy. Four are still being held.
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the empire is in process of crash and burn. it's just tying to save itself from total collapse.
You mean the real evil empire AmeriKKKa?
It is only a question of time until Iran joins the list of client states that CIA controls:
informationclearinghouse . info/article2844.htm
Most modern western democracies are already under perfect CIA control.
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
— William Colby, former Director of the CIA.
"One way to discern who really runs a country is to look to see which individuals, if any, are above the law. In the Obama administration, like its predecessors, they include the employees of the CIA..."
U.S. State Department Policy Planning Study #23, 1948:
Our task is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain position of disparity [U.S. military-economic supremacy]. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization and deal in straight power concepts
This story is rubbish, sorry. That photo is from a Daily Mail story about secret cameras in the Iranian Embassy in London. They secretly filmed protesters in London.
you do the cause of truth no good with such transparent falsehoods.
search the Mail's site for the story "Iran embassy staff secretly film British protesters taking to the streets in wake of election rigging claims"
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