Iranian students' move against UK was natural, Iranian MPs say

TEHRAN,Dec. 1(MNA) – A number of MPs in separate interviews with the Mehr News Agency have commented on the incident that occurred after a demonstration by students in front of the British Embassy. On Tuesday, after a demonstration held to protest against the British government’s hostile policies toward Iran in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, a number of Iranian students from various universities entered the British Embassy compound and pulled down the Union Jack. The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday expressing "regret" over the incident. Deputy police chief Ahmad Reza Radan also said a number of protesters had been arrested and others were being sought. Students’ move was ‘quite natural’ MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said that the incident had its root in the natural emotions of the students and was a response to the British government’s hostile policies toward the Iranian nation. “If we take a look at the history of Britain’s hostile policies toward many countries, we can see that such moves have naturally happened in (other) countries,” said Falahatpisheh, a member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee. Students’ move was a warning to Britain Head of the Majlis cleric faction Mohammad Taqi Rahbar said that the students’ action was a warning to the British government which made London aware that the Iranian people’s patience is limited. Rahbar said what the students did was similar to the move of the students who were followers of the late Imam Khomeini in 1979. Rahbar was referring to the university students’ seizure of the U.S. embassy -- the Den of Spies -- in Tehran in 1979. Students’ action is a sign of Iranian nation’s insight MP Javad Jahangirzadeh, a member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the move was indicative of the Iranian nation’s insight. Majlis speaker Ali Larijani said on Wednesday that the students had been "angered by the British government's behavior" and "decades of domineering moves by the British in Iran." He also called the UN Security Council’s reaction to the incident “hasty”.