Iranian students pelt British embassy over nuclear row
The Scotsman - International - Iranian students pelt British embassy over nuclear row: "Iranian students pelt British embassy over nuclear row
MARGARET NEIGHBOUR
HUNDREDS of Iranian students pelted the British embassy with eggs, tomatoes and stones yesterday during a protest against Europe's call for Iran to permanently freeze its nuclear programme.
About 300 students, who gathered in front of British embassy in downtown Tehran, chanted 'death to England', and 'nuclear energy is our obvious right'.
Anti-riot police blocked the students from entering the embassy grounds, but some demonstrators threw objects at the building.
The students issued a statement urging Iran to pull out of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, resume nuclear activity and cut negotiations with the so-called EU-3 - Britain, France and Germany.
On Wednesday, Tehran resumed uranium conversion at its nuclear facility in Isfahan after rejecting an offer of political, economic and trade incentives from the European negotiators.
Meanwhile, Iran's new president yesterday nominated a Cabinet of hard-liners.
Not one of the 21 ministers that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put forward is known to be pro-democratic reform in Iran and they are widely seen as followers of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a noted conservative who has the final say on all state matters."
MARGARET NEIGHBOUR
HUNDREDS of Iranian students pelted the British embassy with eggs, tomatoes and stones yesterday during a protest against Europe's call for Iran to permanently freeze its nuclear programme.
About 300 students, who gathered in front of British embassy in downtown Tehran, chanted 'death to England', and 'nuclear energy is our obvious right'.
Anti-riot police blocked the students from entering the embassy grounds, but some demonstrators threw objects at the building.
The students issued a statement urging Iran to pull out of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, resume nuclear activity and cut negotiations with the so-called EU-3 - Britain, France and Germany.
On Wednesday, Tehran resumed uranium conversion at its nuclear facility in Isfahan after rejecting an offer of political, economic and trade incentives from the European negotiators.
Meanwhile, Iran's new president yesterday nominated a Cabinet of hard-liners.
Not one of the 21 ministers that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put forward is known to be pro-democratic reform in Iran and they are widely seen as followers of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a noted conservative who has the final say on all state matters."
posted by Greta Jane at Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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