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Bast at British Embassy, 1906. Most famous of all the historical events associated with the embassy is the great 'bast' (meaning sanctuary) of July/August 1906 when, during the constitutional struggle, some 12–16,000 Tehranis took sanctuary in the compound and by thus paralysing the life of the city, forced Muzaffar-ud-din Shah to issue his celebrated Farman of 5 August 1906 granting the ...
The British Embassy in Tehran was closed following an attack on the Embassy on 29 November 2011. Sweden represented British interests in Iran through a British interests section at the Swedish Embassy in Tehran. [10] On 11 November 2013 the UK government appointed a non-resident chargé d'affaires to Iran.
The popular view that the British were involved in the 1921 coup was noted as early as March 1921 by the American embassy and relayed to the Iran desk at the Foreign Office. [11] A British Embassy report from 1932 concedes that the British put Reza Shah "on the throne". [12]
The British government had imposed numerous sanctions on Iran regarding concerns over the nature of Iran's nuclear program.Following the release of a November 2011 International Atomic Energy Agency report that documented weaponisation elements of Iran's nuclear activities, the British government banned all financial institutions in the United Kingdom doing business with their counterparts in ...
The Foreign Office minister said legal disputes between the UK and Iran should be kept separate from the ‘arbitrary detention’ of prisoners in Tehran. British nationals should not be used as ...
Embassy 1997 [33] Gabon: Embassy 1980s [34] Gambia: Embassy Unknown [citation needed] Israel: Embassy: 1979 Closed after 1979 attack to Israeli Embassy in Tehran [35] [36] Morocco: Embassy 2018 [37] Peru: Embassy 1978 [32] Singapore: Embassy 2010 Somalia: Embassy 2016 Closed after 2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran [38] United ...
The embassy building was severely damaged by fire. It was more than a decade before the British and Iranian governments came to an agreement whereby the United Kingdom would repair the damage to the embassy in London and Iran would pay for repairs to the British embassy in Tehran, which had been damaged during the 1979 Iranian Revolution ...
On November 29, 2011, Iranian protesters stormed the British embassy in downtown Tehran and Gholhak Garden. The incident came amid rising tensions over Iran's nuclear program. Earlier in the month, Britain enacted new sanctions against Iran while the Iranian government retaliated by passing legislation to expel the British ambassador.