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Posted on 11/14/2003 4:21:12 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
Embassy Shooting Fuels Iran-UK Tensions
September 03, 2003 The Financial Times Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Jean Eaglesham
Britain temporarily closed its embassy in Tehran on Wednesday after several shots were fired at the building, amid mounting diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
The shooting - in which the embassy's offices were hit but no-one wounded - came two days after a protest outside the building against Britain's role in Iraq. It followed a further deterioration in diplomatic relations between Tehran and London when the Iranian ambassador was recalled home for consultation this week.
The recall of the ambassador, Morteza Sarmadi, followed his meeting with Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, on Monday. Mr Sarmadi hoped to gain some concession on the earlier arrest in the UK of Hadi Soleimanpour, a former Iranian ambassador wanted in connection with a 1994 bombing in Argentina which killed 85 people.
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