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Iran sparks new row with Britain over election
Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:12am EDT
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has detained several local British embassy staff, sparking a new row with Britain on Sunday that underscored the hardline leadership's effort to blame post-election unrest on foreign powers, not popular anger.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband demanded the release of all the staffers still held and said his European Union colleagues had agreed to a "strong, collective response" to any such "harassment and intimidation" against EU missions.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced what he called "interfering statements" by Western officials following Iran's disputed presidential election.
"If the (Iranian) nation and officials are unanimous and united, then the temptations of international ill-wishers and interfering and cruel politicians would no longer have an impact," state radio quoted him as saying.
The West and Iran are at odds over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, as well as its handling of the unrest.
The United States, Britain and their allies have long urged Tehran to abandon uranium enrichment they suspect is aimed at bomb-making. Iran says its nuclear aims are entirely peaceful.
Khamenei on June 19 called Britain the "most treacherous" of Iran's enemies, which he accused of orchestrating the unprecedented outpouring of protest after the June 12 poll.
The streets of Tehran have sunk back into a sullen calm after riot police and religious basij militia crushed huge demonstrations in which at least 20 people were killed.
"Everybody is depressed, everybody is afraid," said one Mousavi voter in his 20s in northern Tehran.
The authorities, while taking tough action to snuff out any embers of protest, have repeatedly accused Britain and the United States of inciting the turmoil. Both countries deny it.
"Eight local employees at the British embassy who had a considerable role in recent unrest were taken into custody," the semi-official Fars news agency said, without saying when.
Miliband said about nine employees had been detained, but some had been freed. "The idea that the British Embassy is somehow behind the demonstrations and protests that have been taking place in Tehran in recent weeks is wholly without foundation," he told reporters at a conference in Corfu.
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Britain and Iran have already expelled two of each other's diplomats since the election, which stirred Iran's most striking display of internal dissent since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
A senior Western diplomat said Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and their allies had achieved a short-term victory and were now determined to press their advantage over dissenters. Continued...
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