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The UK is to expel all Iranian diplomats following the storming of its embassy in Tehran, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced.
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by gladtobehere
Host nations are obliged to ensure the security of diplomatic missions and Irans "lacklustre" attempts to control the crowds show they allowed it to happen, after all, they had no trouble quashing the protests a few years ago against themselves.
Originally posted by NadaCambia
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by gladtobehere
Host nations are obliged to ensure the security of diplomatic missions and Irans "lacklustre" attempts to control the crowds show they allowed it to happen, after all, they had no trouble quashing the protests a few years ago against themselves.
So by extension you're saying the British government colluded in the recent UK riots or any other large protest in which students have attacked and ransacked buildings, some business and some political?
Originally posted by Laurauk
Off course they colluded in the riots in the UK. So they could find it more easier to erode more of the UK citizens democratic rights in the UK.
Originally posted by Laurauk
If the Police had sorted this situation out in the first place instead off refusing to talk to those protesting, with regards to the shooting of an individual. The riots would not have kicked off in the first place.
Originally posted by Laurauk
And if the Met had taken control of the situation, rather than standing back and allowing those to loot shops ransack and burn down homes etc, Then the riots would have spread across England.
Originally posted by megabogie
They weren't just students...some were paramilitary troops under control of the Revolutionary Guard:
mob including members of the paramilitary basij brigades, under the control of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, surged through lines of riot police and broke into the embassy and a separate residential compound, the Qolhak Gardens, in northern Tehran, chanting "Death to England" in scenes reminiscent of the seizure of the US embassy in 1979.
emphasis mine
link: www.guardian.co.uk...
just because they aren't shouting it through the houses of parliament. Doesn't mean they aren't thinking of the ideal of 'death to iran' with as much enthusiasm as those in Iran shouting death to Britain. Atleast these people state what they think/feel. Rather than deceptively withold it.
Originally posted by FastJetPilot
Originally posted by MordyHaran
Good for the Iranians. The UN, UK, US, and everyone else needs to just back the f*** off of them. Have they hurt anyone, really? Have they launched an nuke? Have they done anything that EVERY other country in the world hasn't done at some point in time? The people are sick of having people meddle in their affairs.
All the other countries that are meddling in their affairs are falling apart themselves. Focus on your own yard before you nag your neighbor (or in the case of the US, the house across town) about cutting their grass. The majority of the rest of the worlds people don't care what happens in the Middle East. They're worried, as they should be, about whether or not they're going to have a job to go to in the next few months.
Whatever they want to do in Iran is the business of the people in Iran. If they want to build a nuke, fine. If they want the material for power, fine. We have no business interfering until one of a few things happen:
1. The people of Iran ASK for help.
2. They launch a nuke at someone who cannot fight back. And then only if we're ASKED to help.
3. They launch a nuke at us. Then we return fire and melt them all into glass, no big drawn out war... just a few good warheads on the people who actually launched the nuke or missiles or whatever else, not just random villages with civilians.
Just my $0.02.edit on 30-11-2011 by MordyHaran because: re-wording something.
Ummm...unless im a little paranoid, iranian politicians shouting Death to Britain whilst developing Nukes is a slight concern.
I have no worries that my government would use our Nukes in an unsavoury way, because they dont wander the Houses of Parliament shouting death to iran and I think our military tradition means we wouldnt do an unnacceptable nuke launch on a whim, can you say the same for a state where it is acceptable to shout Death to Britain and it be ok.
NBHD
Oh and you think its OK to wait until they launch on.
OEA
edit on 30-11-2011 by FastJetPilot because: (no reason given)
A new rally was to be held Thursday at a British diplomatic compound in Tehran, Mehr news agency reported, two days after it and another property housing the British embassy was stormed by Iranians.
A reporter for Mehr said "hundreds" of riot police had been deployed to the Qolhak Garden compound in the North of the capital ahead of the rally.