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Iran attack: UK embassy stormed in Tehran (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
RT ^ | 11/29/2011 | not stated

Posted on 11/29/2011 7:20:12 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad

Dozens of Iranian students have stormed the UK embassy in Tehran, chanting “death to England.” Before police intervened, protesters pelted the embassy with stones and petrol bombs, brought down the flag, and destroyed a pile of classified documents.

Reports by the Mehr news agency that six UK staff had been taken hostage when students raided a north Tehran diplomatic compound were withdrawn shortly after they were posted. No explanation was given for the report, nor its removal.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1979rerun; alarm; britain; britishembassy; hysteria; iran; neareast; panic; stormed; tehran; uk; wailing
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To: Pikachu_Dad

News from a few years ago.

Iran missiles put Europe in range - report [German intel corroborated.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622365/posts

Israel Warns Of Iranian Missile Peril For Europe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949044/posts

S. Korea, U.S. verifying reports on test of new N.K. missile in Iran: source
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834307/posts
(4,000 kilometer range—will reach London and the Vatican—May 16th, 2007)

UK and Vatican Call for Cease Fire in Gaza
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155364/posts

Vatican Condemns Israel for Attacks on Lebanon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665678/posts

Iran is building 6,000-km. missile
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000191/posts


41 posted on 11/29/2011 9:46:16 AM PST by familyop ("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: folkquest

From your lips...

“The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 “


42 posted on 11/29/2011 9:47:21 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Iran + Embassy = what could possibly go wrong?


43 posted on 11/29/2011 12:15:16 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Those who trade land for peace will end up with neither one.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

“President Obama said he was disturbed by the incident and called on Iran to hold those responsible to task.”

..Let me get this straight...here is a country whose leaders are illegally developing nuclear weapons to threaten Israel and others, and Obama is asking this government to investigate and report back. When will this cataclysmic nightmare end?


44 posted on 11/29/2011 12:17:53 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: the scotsman

Brit militar have been with us, and always will,... Lockerbie was a political decision. Great fighters. We are the most exceptionally trained and integrated fighters in the world, along with Our Aussie and Maple Leaf partners.


45 posted on 11/29/2011 12:23:51 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: uptoolate

I think the sovereign territory thing went out about the same time as the notion of treason and sedition—when the communists want to make use of them, they’ll be back.


46 posted on 11/29/2011 12:29:54 PM PST by ichabod1 (Vote for Herman Cain 2012!)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

If the Iranians keep playing with fire they are going to get burned.


47 posted on 11/29/2011 6:53:52 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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