Posted on 06/28/2009 4:11:47 PM PDT by Steelfish
Iran 'must free UK embassy staff'
David Miliband: "Harassment and intimidation"
The European Union has demanded the immediate release of Iranian staff at Britain's embassy in Tehran detained on Saturday over post-election unrest.
EU ministers meeting in Greece warned that "harassment or intimidation" of embassy staff would be met with a "strong and collective" response.
Iranian media reported the detention of eight local staff at the UK mission over their alleged role in the unrest.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband dismissed the allegations as baseless.
Relations between the countries are strained since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the UK of stoking post-election protests, which London denies.
Iran has repeatedly accused foreign powers - especially Britain and the US - of meddling after the 12 June election, which officially handed him a decisive victory.
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The stupid Iranian Ayatollahs have clean done plumb forgot that UK is a “NUCLEAR POWER” and can actually turn the place into a glass parking lot at will.
If the Embassy workers are not released, Gordon Brown has threatened to end Fish and Chip Friday.
That should scare the mullahs.
The only thing the West will do is increase their supply of paper and ink so they can write more terse letters .... maybe this time they’ll use red ink for emphasis ....
Unfortunately not a viable alternative- its only the evil regime leaders and the basij shock troops who need to be incinerated.
Stop or we will threaten you with more strong language!! And then we will add “Or else” to the end of our sentences. What’s next is Obama going to be concerned???
Send the Iranian Mullah Whackjobs a message...a nice 3000lb Laser guided message......
Laugh if you must but the EU appears much stronger in this situation than our own administration. I find our administration's approach to be shameful.
Cruise missiles in circumstances such as this are much better.
No pilots to shoot at and cruise missiles can better target things from the side like an office window.
But none of that is likely to get back their citizens...
I'd encourage the Iranian people, less the Ayatollahs and their running dog lackeys to head for the border.
All the while, Barry continues to insert thumb in arse and spin on it....
Appeasement never works Ping!
The hell with the EU. England needs to take back its place as a leader in the free world. I hope the Brits rise up.
Sure we’ll let them go. In 444 days.
The Brits are only missing one thing, the same thing that the current American coup regime is missing.
Do you think the UK would nuke Iran over the arrest of Iranian citizens who work for the UK embassy?
The EU has words but no action. Greece can’t even handle their own muslim problems and now they will hold the baton for the EU. Good luck.
As far as the US, 0 doesn’t want to upset his muslim brothers so nothing to expect from him. He’s just to busy trying to destroy the US.
Rather than have that happen the Brown government is highly likely to start torching Iran from one end to the other.
Something TOTUS should have done days ago
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