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BREAKING: Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Annouce that 2 Iranian Diplomats to be Expelled
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The Washington Note has just received word that in a short while, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce that two Iranian diplomats stationed in the Iran Embassy to the United Kingdom will be expelled.
According to a British diplomat with whom I spoke, the UK government regrets this decision but it is the only appropriate response after Iran announced yesterday that it was expelling two British diplomats from Tehran.
The British diplomat expressed "disappointment" in this turn of events and emphasized that the UK wanted "a constructive relationship" with Iran -- and that engagement has been the standing policy of the Prime Minister and of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
-- Steve Clemons
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any word on why iran has chastised britian in being party responsible for the unrest? they have accused britian of having sent over a number of intel people ahead of the elections... any word on that from gordon brown?? inquiring minds want to know!
Perhaps it's the Brit's colonialist history in that part of the world.
IRAN AND BRITISH COLONIALISM
http://www.ir-psri.com/Show.php?Page=ViewHighlight&HighlightID=126&SP=Farsi
British Colonialism and Repression in Iraq
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/169/36418.html
British Empire Blamed For Modern Conflicts By UK Foreign Secretary
http://www.africahistory.net/Britishcolonialism.htm
not to mention Balfour.........
http://www.mideastweb.org/Middle-East-Encyclopedia/balfour_declaration.htm
There was a recent BBC program on Iran which they don't particular like
Ever since, things have grown increasingly sour.
Hmmm....
Nico Pitney:
10:45 AM ET -- UK-Iran relations get more toxic. "Unsourced reports are circulating, meanwhile, that British banks have frozen $1.6bn in funds belonging to Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the supreme leader," the Guardian reports. And Reuters reports that Iran is temporarily recalling its British ambassador.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
His name comes up again.
Was it John Stewart that said it? Obama's goodwill isn't to be wasted, pick on the smaller brother...
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