Gee this seems somehow familiar…
Iranian protesters storm British diplomatic compounds
(Reuters) - Iranian protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, smashing windows, torching a car and burning the British flag in protest against new sanctions imposed by London.
Time to queue up the SAS.
What do you think their motivation is?
“Radicals in Iran and in the West are always in favor of crisis … Such radical hardliners in Iran will use the crisis to unite people and also to blame the crisis for the fading economy,” said political analyst Hasan Sedghi.
Didn’t know Rham was moonlighting as a consultant for the Iranian ‘students’. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Just as a side note, I would think that after our hostage crisis there that no embassy or consulate would allow itself to be over run like that. It sounds like no one was at the embassy, but the ‘hostages’ at the other site is disturbing.
Govt. thugs retaliating against the west because we won’t let them have a nuke factory.
It’s my understanding that the regime is pissed off because of of Britain’s decision to cut off banking relations with Iranian banking institutions.
So the Iranian mullahs sent out their thugs to show the “rage of the people.”
This is bullshit. These countries need to be shown that these Embassies are soveriegn territories/British soil. The Brits should have responded to the threat of an embassy being overrun the same as if an FOB or actual British soil was being invaded. :suicide:
Did they not learn anything from the shit the U.S. went through in the past?
I’m sure the british troops are just as hard charging as the US Marines who do a hell of a job protecting our Nation’s Embassies. If we would allow them to their jobs and support them with proper military assets this kind of shit wouldn’t happen!! I’M PISSED!!!
Ultimately the security force is under the command of the diplo-dink that runs the embassy. An Ambassador is not mentally equipped to allow a soldier or marine to do his job. That puss-job in the tie probably tried to negotiate with the invaders.
They’d be overrun and annihilated and all of the civilian embassy employees under their charge would die horribly. Like it or not, our hostages from 1979 came home alive because the Marines exercised discretion and didn’t fire on the invaders.
And Britain would instantly be in a de facto state of war with Iran afterwards.
You start pumping rounds into civilians of a host nation and all bets would be off in a heartbeat.
Furthermore without air transport, and close air support, every person in the embassy would be dead fairly quick or put on trial and probably executed.
The Hostage Crisis worked wonders for us, great experience. VB, where you even alive back then?
Cheers to the Brits for winning by not being there.
The attackers aren’t students. They are terrorists. Shoot them inside the fence.
Iran’s leadership seems to be on a suicidal bent. Like it is trying to commit suicide by NATO. Threaten to attack Turkey, over-run the British Embassy, supply arms and support to terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, try to build nuclear weapons, threaten to wipe Israel off the map. It’s almost like their bad behavior protects them instead of imperils them. It’s almost like they are vying to host the US troops from Iraq.
My surprised face :lazy2:
Yes I was alive and old enough to remember when the hostages were released.
Either way, no CO is not going to give the order to shoot unarmed civilians in a host nation because that would be grounds for war. As it stands, Britain handled the situation in a politically sound fashion
Iran is the lynch-pin here. Two administrations have raged war in Iraq, Afaghanistan, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, and now I’m hearing that we’re parking a carrier group off the coast of Syria.
If Iran is attacked (either US or IDF) China and Russia will be brought into conflict with the West, WWIII will ensue.
I doubt it. Russia will not go to war for Iran, and the Chinese are far too nationalistic to waste Chinese blood for Persians/Muslims. More likely, both will bid for contracts for oil and commerce after Iran falls.
Both Russia and China have very clearly stated otherwise.
For some reason, I find it a whole lot more plausible to believe the Prime Minister of Russia when he says that Russia will go to war, rather than a US citizen that cannot know most of what is going on behind the scenes.
Russia considers Iran a very close ally, and any attack on Iran will be dealt with quite severely by the Russians.
China doesn’t usually beat around the bush, and they have told the US to leave Pakistan alone, or else. I don’t really think that it would be wise for the US to try to test either of those countries at the present time, considering their military strength, and the imminent implosion of the dollar…
Gotta love the ironies of history…
2011 - “Protesters” storm the British embassy, the Iranian does nothing and even encourages the violence in defiance of all national norms and thousands of years of traditional protection of diplomats…
1980 - Separatists storm the Iranian embassy in London and start killing hostages…Under the direction of the British government SAS troopers storm the Iranian embassy and return it to the Iranian diplomats
But what have you done for me lately bitches 
What are your thoughts concerning the American raid on the Iranian embassy in Erbil, Iraq in 2007? From this raid we kept 5 people imprisoned for over 2 1/2 years before releasing them. Should the Iranians embassy be considered a sovereign territory as well?
Interesting Iranian and American history in this short video on Operation Ajax in 1953. http://youtu.be/HUQnVCZnmnI
Only war will halt Iran’s pursuit of Israels nuclear destruction.
The aggressors were not civilians. At the very least they were acting as defacto agents of the state. At the worst they are foreign invaders or terrorists. Spontaneous protests are not allowed to continue in Iran. They are crushed on the spot. If one continues, it is due to the fact that the state wants it to continue.
If Soldiers (or Marines) are not posted to defend their embassy against such attacks, contract security seems more appropriate. I think it is an insult to the uniform to ask a military member not to defend the embassy of his country.
Britain has given all Iranian diplomats 48 hours to pack their shit and get out. It ain’t a shootin’ war, but in diplomatic terms, that’s playing hardball.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2011/11/20111130135525214958.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15966628
Obama has been taking heat for not pushing aggressively enough on sanctions of Iran’s central bank, allegedly due to concerns of Iranian retaliation causing a spike in world crude oil prices.
One has to wonder if the UK is trying to force his hand with such stern diplomatic action.
2011-11-30 UK kicks Iranians out of said embassy in London. I can’t post a link now but its all over the BBC news here in Europe.
ETA: montanadave beat me to it.