Posted on 06/28/2009 3:23:53 PM PDT by lewisglad
The European Union’s 27 nations on Sunday joined forces to condemn Iran’s detention of British embassy staff in Tehran,as tensions escalated between Iran and the west in the wake of the disputed elections.
After Iran arrested nine local employees working at the UK embassy in Tehran, EU foreign ministers meeting in Corfu said they would respond firmly to any further “harassment or intimidation [by Iran] of foreign or Iranian staff working in embassies”.
David Miliband, Britain’s foreign secretary, said he was “deeply concerned” by the arrests and warned their continued detention was “quite unacceptable’’.
The seriousness of the diplomatic stand-off was underscored by the EU statement in which foreign ministers said they were becoming “seriously concerned” about developments inside Iran. Iran has in the last fortnight witnessed the greatest upheaval since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The EU statement demanded all should immediately be set free.
Iranian media said the staff had been detained because of their “considerable role” in instigating riots triggered by this month’s disputed election result.
Miliband roundly rejected Iran’s allegations about the locally hired staff on Sunday. “These are hard-working diplomatic staff and the idea that the British Embassy is somehow behind the demonstrations and protests that have been taking place in Tehran in recent weeks is wholly without foundation,” he said
The UK has been the focus of Iran’s diplomatic protests, partly because the US does not have an embassy in Iran.
But the troubled relationship between the UK and Iran also has a long history, going back to British involvement in a 1953 coup in Iran.
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Pingaroo.
Another thread reported the mullah's orders to adjudicate and execute protesters for crimes against the muzzie religion and the state. Thanks, Jimmy. I hope you have difficulty sleeping.
Perhaps this is an inopportune time to aks this question but wasn't the election of Ubama supposed to usher in a millenium of sunshine and lollipops the world over?
The UK would do best to take their country back from the immigrants and return to the once strong country I once knew.
Hold hands and sing, the savior has arrived to bring in peace or so the idiot ZERO thought. Whoever filled his head did a real number on this Country.
Has he commented about the taking of the Brits?
Not that I know of. He's probably busy formulating an apology for America's involvement in the taking.
That would not surprise me at all!
I can’t wait to see DumbO prevaricate his way through this one.
Uhbama: “Why can’t you folk, just, wait for them the worship me like everyone else.”
Whodda guessed it? The US administration is cowardly and the EU is the lion.
We will fart in their direction!!
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