Iran frees UK Embassy rioters

Iran has released 11 people who attacked the British Embassy in Tehran after two days of violence, Fars News Agency reported on Thursday. Iran claims these people are students. On Tuesday, a 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.

The group pulled down the British flag, burned it and put up the Iranian flag instead. Some took a framed picture of Queen Elizabeth. Police appeared to have cleared the demonstrators from the front of the main embassy compound, but later clashed with protesters and fired tear gas to try to disperse them. Protesters nevertheless entered the compound a second time, before once again leaving.


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