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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 Iranian Embassy in London The British Embassy in Tehran. The Herald Tribune on 22 January 2006 reported a rise in British exports to Iran from £296 million in 2000 to £443.8 million in 2004. A spokesperson for UK Trade and Investment was quoted saying that "Iran has become more attractive because it now pursues a more liberal economic ...
Britain said on Thursday it would create a new sanctions regime for Iran, giving the UK greater powers to target decision makers, including those involved in weapons proliferation and threats ...
Embassy 1978 [32] Egypt: Embassy 1979 Closed after Iranian Revolution Ethiopia: 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
The 2011 attack on the British Embassy in Iran was a mob action on 29 November 2011 by a crowd of Iranian protesters who stormed the embassy and another British diplomatic compound in Tehran, Iran, ransacking offices and stealing documents.
At the time, Gholhak was a small village outside of Tehran. [1] Gholhak Garden is separate from the historic British embassy several miles south in central Tehran, where British ambassadors have now lived for decades. Today, several British diplomats and their families as well as some Iranian embassy staff reside in the Gholhak complex. [1] [2]
In 2014, all services at the former UK Consulate in Orlando were transferred to the nearby UK Consulate-General in Miami. [5] In 2015, the UK Consulate-General in Denver was reclassified as a UK Government Office. [ 6 ]