Iranians in Tehran staged a fresh anti-British demonstration Friday in support of the storming of Britain's diplomatic compounds earlier this week, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iranians in
Tehran
staged a fresh anti-British demonstration Friday in support of the storming of
Britain
's
diplomatic compounds earlier this week, the official IRNA news agency reported.
After attending Friday prayers in
Tehran
University
,
worshippers flocked to central Enqelab (Revolution) Square, chanting
"Death to
Britain
"
and "(We) support the seizure of the second den of spies (the British
embassy)," said IRNA.
They also condemned what they called
Britain
's
hostile policies toward the Islamic republic, and finished up their
demonstration by setting British and Israeli flags on fire.
IRNA did not say how many people attended the rally.
Foreign media in
Tehran
were
told on Thursday that covering all anti-British, pro-regime protests was now
forbidden--an unprecedented restriction that adds to many other reporting curbs
already in place.
Another anti-British rally in front of
Qolhak
Garden
--
Britain
's
diplomatic residential compound--was reported Thursday by Mehr news agency but
no further details were given.
The rise of a new anti-British campaign in
Iran
comes
after
London
,
along with other Western nations, placed sanctions against
Tehran
's
central bank over its nuclear programme.
On Tuesday, hundreds of angry protesters ran amok in
Britain
's
diplomatic mission in
Tehran
,
prompting the evacuation of all British diplomats for their safety.
Britain
in
response ordered the closure of the Iranian embassy in
London
, with
its diplomats told to leave the country by 1400 GMT on Friday.
During the main weekly Muslim prayers on Friday, a senior cleric, Ayatollah
Ahmad Khatami, warned other Western countries not to follow in the footsteps of
Britain
.
"We advise the Europeans not to entangle their fate with that of a
decaying
Britain
--or
else our nation's hatred toward
Britain
will
also befall them," Khatami said.
He instructed worshippers to add "Death to
Britain
"
to their cycle of "Death to
America
"
and "Death to
Israel
"
chants.
He did not, however, directly mention Tuesday's pillaging of
Britain
's
embassy.
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