adminransacking offices, a AFP journalist outside the compound reported.
According to an RT report, the protesters were chanting, chanting “Death to England” and bringing down the British flag.
The protesters were also shown live on Iranian state television throwing stones at embassy windows, breaking them, and one was seen climbing the wall with a looted portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
The intrusion occurred as ranks of Iranian police in riot gear stood by.
Around half an hour later, officers could be seen on top of the embassy compound’s walls, preventing other protesters entering. Other Iranian policemen were seen inside the compound trying to remove the pro-testers.
Outside the embassy’s walls, several hundred other demonstrators were gathered, some of them chanting “Death to Britain” and demanding the British ambassador leave the country immediately.
Attempts by AFP to contact several embassy staff members by telephone and email were not successful.
The demonstration came a day after Iran passed a law to expel the ambassador within the next two weeks in retaliation for new British sanctions that cut off all ties with Iran’s financial sector.
The sanctions were part of a co-ordinated raft of unilateral measures announced November 14 by Britain, the United States and Canada to further pressure Iran to halt its controversial nuclear programme.
Britain has threatened to act “robustly” if Iran’s foreign ministry follows through by kicking out its ambassador, Dominick Chilcott, who took up his post only last month. – AFP-RT.
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