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Rome Summons Iran's Charge d'Affaires over Mission Attack
2011-12-02
[An Nahar] Iran's charge d'affaires in Rome, Mehdi Akouchekian, was on Thursday summoned by Italia's foreign ministry following the "intolerable" attack by protesters on Britannia's embassy in Tehran.

The Italian government expressed its "strong condemnation" of the "violent and intolerable" attack and stressed its "solidarity with the British government," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

"Italia will evaluate, along with other European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 countries, how to react to make sure such an episode will not happen again," it said.

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said Wednesday that he was considering closing the Italian embassy in Tehran.

"Italia expects from Iran strong and clear guarantees on respecting the fundamental principles of sanctity of diplomatic-consular representatives," the statement said.

Akouchekian expressed Iran's "regret" for the protesters' "unacceptable behavior" and assured Italia that "urgent and necessary measures will be adopted."

He assured the foreign ministry of Iran's "commitment to protect and safeguard the diplomatic and consular offices in Tehran."

Britannia's mission was attacked on Tuesday by protesters angry over new British sanctions against Iran's financial system that followed a recent U.N. report containing evidence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons.

Posted by:Fred

#1  Back when the British Empire had teeth, they would generally have a violent, non-linear response to provocative attacks and violations of diplomatic missions by foreign powers. Their enemies found this to be very unnerving.

For example, In 1860, during the Second Opium War, two British envoys, a journalist for The Times and their small escort of British and Indian troopers met with the Royal Prince to negotiate. Instead they were confined and tortured, resulting in twenty deaths.

The British High Commissioner to China, Lord Elgin, retaliated by ordering the destruction of the Chinese Old Summer Palace, which was then carried out by French and British troops.

This cut to the bone, because it ignored any efforts by the Chinese nobility to blame it all on unauthorized lesser individuals, and hit them where they hurt.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-12-02 08:57  

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