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Iran 'Must Free UK Embassy Staff' [To Be Met With "Strong And Collective" Response": Such As?]
BBC News ^ | June 28, 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britons; euministers; hostages; tehran; ukembassy
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If only the EU comes to its senses and realizes that thugs and dictators from Hitler, Mussolini, to Stalin, and Pol-Pot understand only the language of F16s.
1 posted on 06/28/2009 4:11:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
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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.


2 posted on 06/28/2009 4:13:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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If the Embassy workers are not released, Gordon Brown has threatened to end Fish and Chip Friday.

That should scare the mullahs.


3 posted on 06/28/2009 4:14:30 PM PDT by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
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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 ....


4 posted on 06/28/2009 4:15:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: muawiyah

Unfortunately not a viable alternative- its only the evil regime leaders and the basij shock troops who need to be incinerated.


5 posted on 06/28/2009 4:15:21 PM PDT by Steelfish
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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......


6 posted on 06/28/2009 4:15:28 PM PDT by jakerobins ( NO)
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If the Embassy workers are not released, Gordon Brown has threatened to end Fish and Chip Friday.

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.

7 posted on 06/28/2009 4:20:23 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Steelfish

8 posted on 06/28/2009 4:20:48 PM PDT by paulycy (Liberal DOUBLE-STANDARDS are HATE crimes.)
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To: jakerobins

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...


9 posted on 06/28/2009 4:21:01 PM PDT by DB
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Unfortunately for the people living there, the only way to really smoke 'em out is going to be dangerous to them to.

I'd encourage the Iranian people, less the Ayatollahs and their running dog lackeys to head for the border.

10 posted on 06/28/2009 4:22:37 PM PDT by muawiyah
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All the while, Barry continues to insert thumb in arse and spin on it....

Appeasement never works Ping!


11 posted on 06/28/2009 4:24:16 PM PDT by cranked
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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.


12 posted on 06/28/2009 4:25:25 PM PDT by RC2
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13 posted on 06/28/2009 4:26:12 PM PDT by wally_bert (My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre)
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Sure we’ll let them go. In 444 days.


14 posted on 06/28/2009 4:26:21 PM PDT by BigCinBigD ('When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang,')
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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.

The Brits are only missing one thing, the same thing that the current American coup regime is missing.


15 posted on 06/28/2009 4:26:53 PM PDT by Costumed Vigilante (Congress: When a handful of evil morons just isn't enough)
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Or?

The dreaded intercontinetal cruise memo.
16 posted on 06/28/2009 4:28:17 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Do you think the UK would nuke Iran over the arrest of Iranian citizens who work for the UK embassy?


17 posted on 06/28/2009 4:33:55 PM PDT by kabar
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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.


18 posted on 06/28/2009 4:34:29 PM PDT by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
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Of course ~ else all those Islamofascists running around UK these days will start chanting "Racist, Racist, Racist" and the Brits will feel so ashamed.

Rather than have that happen the Brown government is highly likely to start torching Iran from one end to the other.

19 posted on 06/28/2009 4:36:03 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Britain should begin delivery of massive arms shipment to the good people of Iran to defend themselves with.

Something TOTUS should have done days ago

20 posted on 06/28/2009 4:36:26 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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