Iranian protesters storm UK embassy
- Iran police clash with British embassy protesters, fire tear gas to disperse crowd -Fars agency
- Iranian police secure release of six British embassy staff taken hostage by hardline students, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
- "Some students at the embassy have been injured and security forces are trying to force them out of the embassy. Some security forces have also been injured in clashes with protesters," Fars said.
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Police chase protesters as they enter the gate of the British embassy in Tehran.
Protesters walk in the British embassy compound as an embassy car burns in Tehran.
- The incident brought to mind the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Iranian students on November 4, 1979. Here are details of that siege.
A protesters removes the emblem of the British embassy in Tehran.
- Iranian police have secured the release of six employees of the British embassy compound in northern Tehran who had been taken hostage by hardline students earlier in the day, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"Police freed the six people working for the British embassy in Qolhak garden," Fars said. 
Protesters burn a British flag taken down from the British embassy in Tehran.
A protester walks with a poster from the British embassy in Tehran.
Protestors break windows of a building inside the compound of the British embassy in Tehran.
- The UK is advising British nationals in Iran to stay indoors and keep a low profile
Protestors remove the crest of the British embassy in Tehran.
- Britain urges Iran to take urgent action to bring the situation under control.
"Senior officials have spoken to the Iranian charge (senior diplomat) in London to urge the Iranian authorities to act with utmost urgency to ensure the situation is brought under control and to protect our diplomatic compound, as they are obliged to do under international law," Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement. From YouTube/Unity4Iran : Video of protesters storming the British embassy titled "Pro regime Supporters & Basijis attack British embaasy in Iran"
- Images of the storming of the embassy from Fars News Agency farsnews.com
- The attacks followed the rapid approval by Iran's Guardian Council of a parliamentary bill compelling the government to expel the British ambassador in retaliation for the sanctions. A lawmaker had also warned Sunday that angry Iranians could storm the British Embassy as they did the U.S. mission in 1979.
- Protesters pulled down the British flag, burned it, and put up the Iranian flag, Iranian news agencies and news pictures showed. Inside, the demonstrators threw stones and petrol bombs. One waved a framed picture of Queen Elizabeth, state TV showed.
Others carried the royal crest out through the embassy gate as police stood by, pictures carried by the official Fars news agency showed. - Images from today's embassy protest www.reuters.com
- Demonstrators waved flags symbolizing martyrdom and held up portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
- The incident followed Britain's imposition of new sanctions on the Islamic state last week over its nuclear program.
London banned all British financial institutions from doing business with their Iranian counterparts, including the Central Bank of Iran, as part of a new wave of sanctions by Western countries. - Trita Parsi, a U.S.-based expert on Iranian relations with the West said the attacks were very worrisome development.
"It is yet another sign that rather than permitting diplomacy to de-escalate the situation, tensions between Iran and the West are on the rise with Iran's continued nuclear work, sabotage, assassinations, sanctions and now the attack on the embassy," he told Reuters. - Breaking: Iranian protesters again enter main British embassy compound in Tehran, Fars News agency reports
- "Some students and ordinary people managed to break into the British compound again," Fars reported, adding that the Tehran governor was at the scene "trying to calm down the students."
- #Iran situation in front of northern British embassy compound still tense,
students say they have handed "spies" over to police.comment by ThomasErdbrink via twitter 11/29/2011 4:31:20 PM Stone-throwing Iranian protesters break into the British embassy compound in Tehran. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
- Iran Foreign Ministry statement: regrets British embassy attack in Tehran, says committed to diplomats' safety
Key areas affected by sanctions imposed by the international community against Iran. Full Graphic
by Stephanie Ditta via Graphics.thomsonreuters 11/29/2011 4:52:07 PM- FCO condemns 'unacceptable' security incident at British Embassy in Tehran Full Statement
- The White House condemns storming of British embassy in Tehran, says Iran has responsibility to protect diplomatic missions.
- Students break into british compound, bad thing is, it shows people dislike for Western countries, Government obviously don't appreciate much. 3 years back, they revolt against the government and now speaking the same language.
- Did the British Embassy really have a framed poster of "Pulp Fiction"??
- Yes, one of our photographers captured a protester carrying a poster of a scene from the film "Pulp Fiction" from the embassy. I'll repost that photo shortly.
- Not sure if my message went through but I reiterate, this is payback for removing the democratically elected leader under operation ajax in 1953 and supporting Iraqi in the 10-year war between Iraq and Iran the killed 1 million iranians including the use of western chemical weapons. So please excuse me if I shed no tears.
- The White House urges Iran to prosecute those who stormed the British embassy, says the U.S. is in close contact with the British on the matter.
- Was just at GB emb garden, situation still tense, with police and baseej, and lost of secret policecomment by ThomasErdbrink via twitter edited by Stephanie Ditta 11/29/2011 5:09:34 PM
Protestors walk in the compound of the British embassy in Tehran. REUTERS/Stringer
- The EU says Iran must protect diplomats and embassies, condemns attack on UK embassy in Tehran -EU foreign policy spokeswoman
Police stand guard in front of the British embassy before demonstrators broke through and entered the embassy in Tehran. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi
- Iran govt. ordered to downgrade UK ties -report from Press TV. Full Story
A protester tries to set fire to a British flag on top of a wall at the British embassy in Tehran.
- Iran's foreign ministry said it regretted the storming of two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, the students' news agency ISNA reported, quoting a government statement.
"The foreign ministry regrets the protests that led to some unacceptable behaviors ... We respect and we are committed to international regulations on the immunity and safety of diplomats and diplomatic places," the statement said. 
A policeman takes the flag from a protester on top of the wall of the British embassy in Tehran November 29, 2011.
Iranian protesters remove a satellite dish from a building near the gate of the British Embassy in Tehran.
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