Iran arrests several students for breaking inside UK embassy

Some of the Iranian students that broke into the UK Embassy on Tuesday were detained, Iranian Deputy Chief of police Ahmad Rza Radan said, IRNA reported.

Radan added that those captured were transferred to the court, and the rest of the students are being searched for. Investigation on this matter continues. Radan did not detail how many people were detained, while earlier Fars News Agency reported, that 12 students were detained by the Iranian police.

The UK has evacuated all its diplomatic staff from Iran, a day after protesters stormed and ransacked its embassy and a residential compound.

On Nov. 29, group of protesters broke away from a crowd of a few hundred outside the main British embassy compound in Tehran, scaled the gates, broke the locks and went inside. Protesters pulled down the British flag, burned it and put up the Iranian flag instead. Some took a framed picture of Queen Elizabeth.


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