Iranian Students Vow to Continue Protests Until Full Cut of Ties with Britain

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Thousands of angry protesters who occupied the British embassy in Tehran in protest at London's hostile moves against Iran issued a final statement after they were forced by the police to leave the compound, saying that they will continue protests until a full severance of Iran's relations with Britain.     
 
The students, who were forced to fully retreat from the compound a few minutes ago after a rather tough confrontation with the police and after the country's deputy police warned of still a tougher confrontation, said in their statement that they would not keep mum about the warmongering policies of the British government, and urged the Tehran government and parliament to fully cut the country's ties with London.

The parliament approved a lowering of ties with London just this Sunday, a week after Britain intensified its hostile measures against Iran and played a main role in a new round of sanctions on Iran's banking and energy sectors.

"The Council of Participants in the Sit-in at the Old Fox's Den of Plots (British embassy)…ask the government and the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) to end the diplomatic activity of the British Embassy in Tehran and avoid sufficing to a downgrading of the relations," said the protesters' statement issued on Tuesday night.

The students further cited assassination of Iran's nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari by the Israeli Mossad agency last year which was designed and supported by the MI6 as a clear proof of Britain's terrorist nature, and said they long intended to occupy the embassy "but the law enforcement police prevented them".

The statement further mentioned Britain's main role in provoking, supporting and financing the post-election unrests in Tehran in June 2009 and its main role in the assassination of Iran's nuclear scientists as acknowledged by Britain's Intelligence Service Director John Baer last year - who stressed that intelligence and espionage operations were the only way to battle Iran - as among the many factors which provoked the students into occupying the British embassy in Tehran on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Shahriari on November 29.

"Occupying the Old Fox's Fen of Plots on the martyrdom anniversary of this martyr was only a small response from the country's academic and students community, but thoughts about avenging this martyrdom will always remain in their minds while Professor Shahriari's students who hold key nuclear posts in the country will definitely stun the world with their fresh innovations," the statement added.

It further pointed to "Britain's companionship with the United States' lies and warmongering moves and polices against Iran, specially on the country's nuclear program, and its war rhetoric and threats of a military strike in recent weeks accompanied by bold sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran" as among other causes of the embassy occupation move, cautioning that "sanctioning the CBI was synonymous with declaring war on the Iranian nation".

"The revolutionary students' today move and occupation of the Old Fox's Den of Plots was only a meager response to this declaration of war and Britain should wait for the coming moves of the great Iranian nation who intends to settle an old score with Britain for years of plotting (against Iran)," the students' statement read.

"We, the students who occupied the Old Fox's Den of Plots, believe that the recent move by the parliament in lowering relations with Britain is not at all appropriate for Britain's devilish animosities towards the Iranian nation and demand a full severance of the relations with this devilish government and we announce that we will not come short of our righteous demands," concluded the statement.

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