The British ambassador to Iran was summoned on Sunday (November 20th) for the fourth time since the protest movement began more than two months ago in the Islamic Republic, the official Irna news agency reported.
“
Simon Shercliff has been summoned to be served with protests against a recent attack by a violent group on the Iranian Embassy in London
,” the agency said.
According to Irna, "
the Director General of the Protocol Department of the Foreign Office transmitted to the British diplomat Tehran's vehement protest against the inefficiency and inability of the British police to prevent the attack on its embassy
".
"Regrets"
This summons, according to the agency, took place after a "
violent group attacked the building of the Iranian embassy in London and insulted the sacred flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran
", without specifying the date. of the incident.
According to the agency, the British ambassador expressed "
regret over the incident
", adding that he would "
transmit Iran's protest to London
".
He also expressed the hope that "
such incidents will not happen again in the future
", according to the same source.
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Since the beginning of the protest movement in Iran sparked on September 16 by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd arrested by morality police for violating the strict dress code requiring women to wear the veil, Tehran has summoned several ambassadors of Western countries to protest "
against the interference of these countries in the internal affairs of Iran
".
