Iranian students set fire on UK flag in front of country’s embassy in Tehran

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov.29 / Trend T.Jafarov, E. Kosolapova / Iranian students burst into the UK Embassy in Iran and throw everything outside the door. They tore down the UK Queen Elizabeth's picture. The protestors lowered the UK flag from the embassy and erected Iranian flag instead of it. According to the report, protestors condemned anti-Iran policy of the UK and the West countries. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office refused to provide any comment to Trend in this regard. Hundreds of Iranian university students started a rally in front of the British embassy in Tehran Tuesday afternoon to shout protest against London's hostile policies against Iran, FARS news agency reported. The Iranian parliament approved a downgrading of ties with Britain on Sunday. The Iranian legislators approved the bill with 179 yes votes, 4 oppositions and 11 abstentions. The parliament approval came a week after the US and Britain targeted Iranian financial sectors with new punitive measures, including sanctions on Iran's Central Bank and petrochemical industry. The sanction against CBI and Iran's petrochemical industry was adopted in a unilateral move by the US, Canada and Britain outside the UN Security Council as other council members, specially Russia and China, had earlier warned against any fresh punitive measure, including sanctions, against Iran. They throw bottles of kerosene at the embassy building and as a result it caught fire. Do you have any feedback? Contact our journalist at agency@trend.az