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Iran arrests British Deputy Ambassador on espionage charges
Arutz Sheva ^ | 6/7/22 | Gary Wilig

Posted on 07/06/2022 5:01:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Iran has arrested the British Deputy Ambassador and a number of other foreign nationals on charges of espionage, Iranian media reported Wednesday.

Deputy Ambassador Giles Whitaker, who heads the British diplomatic mission in Iran, was taken into custody by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The Iranian government released footage it claimed showed Whitaker near the site of Iranian missile tests. He is also accused of taking soil...

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bible; espionage; ezekiel38; gileswhitaker; iran; iraq; irgc; lastdays; lebanon; missilesite; mullahloversonfr; prophecy; unitedkingdom; waronterror; whitaker; yemen

1 posted on 07/06/2022 5:01:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

They smell weakness in the West. With Boris on the ropes and an idiot at the White House.


2 posted on 07/06/2022 5:04:50 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: Eleutheria5
I don't know why but this just filled me with rage.

Diplomats can be expelled, but never arrested.

3 posted on 07/06/2022 5:06:22 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Would this not be an act of war?
Provocative. Is it the Iranian election season?


4 posted on 07/06/2022 5:06:39 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: cll

WW3 - it’s like watching a train wreck in slo-mo.
Somebody - anybody stop it.
Crickets.


5 posted on 07/06/2022 5:07:16 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: TheDon

It could be more Kabuki theater, with the UK’s Deep State in on it with the mullahs.


6 posted on 07/06/2022 5:10:25 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Eleutheria5

More details, purportedly, here....

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-detains-several-foreigners-including-senior-uk-diplomat-alleged-spying-tv-2022-07-06/


7 posted on 07/06/2022 5:11:58 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Lazamataz

Diplomats can be expelled, but never arrested.


The Iranians have a track record when it comes to “diplomatic immunity”. Have we ever gotten our embassy back?


8 posted on 07/06/2022 5:13:10 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: mewzilla

https://news.sky.com/story/britains-second-most-senior-envoy-among-those-detained-in-iran-accused-of-spying-12647138

The UK is saying the story is bunk.


9 posted on 07/06/2022 5:13:38 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Better call NATO


10 posted on 07/06/2022 5:21:20 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: Palio di Siena

Amen


11 posted on 07/06/2022 5:22:24 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: Palio di Siena

Ezekiel 38 coming with this one

Which could be called what you said


12 posted on 07/06/2022 5:29:20 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: hanamizu; All

“The Iranians have a track record when it comes to “diplomatic immunity”. Have we ever gotten our embassy back?”

Iran was nice enough to have given us many Iranian made, and Russian made, anti-armor mines, anti-personnel mines, and rockets returned from Iran to us in Iraq and Syria.


13 posted on 07/06/2022 6:09:18 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: hanamizu; All

“The Iranians have a track record when it comes to “diplomatic immunity”. Have we ever gotten our embassy back?”

Iran was nice enough to have given us many Iranian made, (and Russian made), anti-armor mines, anti-personnel mines, and rockets “returned” from Iran to us in Iraq and Syria.


14 posted on 07/06/2022 6:11:27 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Eleutheria5

......lol, “diplomacy” ain’t gonna work in this case. The Brit’s will need LEVERAGE and lots of it, e.g a fully loaded mega tanker with Iranian owned oil in it.

Britain’s SBS could pick off one for them no problem.


15 posted on 07/06/2022 8:04:46 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: mylife

Absolutely. This is what they call in the ghetto, “trying you out”. Doing it on behalf of Russia and China, both of whom are eager to sense weakness for their respective projects of conquest. Time to show them what a navy’s for. Rule Britannia.


16 posted on 07/07/2022 2:04:16 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: Lazamataz

That’s the idea. Iran just broke diplomatic protocol and law. Now what is the UK, the US, NATO and the UN going to do about it?


17 posted on 07/07/2022 3:14:03 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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