Iran

Iran Not Helping Themselves

Amid the massive controversey surrounding the Iranian nuclear program and the possibility of the production of nuclear weapons, I ran has just thrown more fuel on the fire. Tuesday, Iranian protestors stormed two UK diplomatic compounds, one being the embassy in Tehran. The protestors, who were voicing there anger over mounting sanctions by the UK, stormed the buildings tuesday and had several british diplomatic officals in their power. The protestors also had set fire to one of the compounds. The result has seen the UK expelling all Iranian diplomats from the UK. Iran responded likewise by sending the Uk diplomats back to london.

Iran has already been in the hot seat recently. Pressure from Israel, the United States, and several other major powers have brought Iran’s nuclear program into the spotlight out of the fear of Nuclear weapons production. This failure to fulfill their international duty of protecting a foreign embassy amid a mass protest has brought forth the criticism of just about every major world power. Iran may be facing even more severe sanctions from other countries who are still willing to maintain diplomatic ties, although norway has already pulled their diplomats for security reasons and several other nations may do the same. Iran has avoided outright conflict so far, but they are making powerful enemies very quickly.

Realist

http://www.albawaba.com/news/britain-outraged-after-tehran-embassy-stormed-403272

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15996943

December 2, 2011 at 01:04 am