Tehran students firebomb British embassy

Several hundred students threw stones and firebombs at the British Embassy in Tehran in protest at the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iraq.

Several hundred students threw stones and firebombs at the British Embassy in Tehran in protest at the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iraq.

A few windows were broken in the embassy, and firebombs went off outside its walls during the two-hour protest today, before Iranian police wielding sticks waded into the demonstrators and dispersed them.

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