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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Feb. 10 – Radical Islamists affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards attacked
on Friday the embassies of Britain,
France, and Denmark in Tehran.
The French embassy was attacked by a mob of several-dozen hard-liners who
hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at the building as they chanted “Death
to France”.
A larger crowd had gathered outside the Danish embassy where they hurled
stones and chanted “Death to Denmark”
and “Death to America”.
Among the protestors was a cleric who read out a statement declaring Iran’s
“right” to develop nuclear capabilities.
Later on, the British embassy also came under attack by a group of
hard-liners. Protestors threw stones at the embassy site, which had been
already been attacked several times earlier this week.
Danish and French dailies had carried controversial cartoons of the Islamic
prophet Mohammad, depicting him negatively. The cartoons sparked protests
worldwide. In Iran
the Norwegian, Austrian, British, French, and Danish embassies all came
under attack during the cartoon furore.
The United States has
accused Tehran
of deliberately inciting violence over the cartoons.
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