No word yet on how many folks are inside the embassy? I hope everyone is safe.

Whatever their status its a violation of the Vienna Convention.

Time to kick the Iranian diplomatic mission out of London. :yep:

I'm wondering if there were any marines attached for protection purposes?...not that they could have done much :hmmm:

London Evening Standard, 12 Oct 2011. (Source)

Why the devil do we still have an embassy there? It's not as if we're actually wanted. Hopefully this incident will give the Foreign Office the kick up the backside it needs to shut down the last remaining diplomatic relations with Iran. Hopefully it will do this without casualties too.

There probably is a war with Iran brewing...but personally I hope we don't get involved with it, we just don't have the resources to do so...the news today is reporting that we've got another twenty years to wait until we get a carrier. Until then I think we should refrain from getting involved in military events around the globe...you can't run a decent military on a shoestring and expect it to perform to the high standards that it has committed itself to. :nope:

Because the UK dosn't want to be like the US, they want to get their info on whats happening in Tehran from the SIS and not CNN! :O:

Hasn't it been subbed out to Group 4 yet?

:hmmm:

Touché :yep:

LOL....more than likely :DL

Well if SAS ... take care of this, it becomes another sound in the barrel, they are not directly stationed there, only "some" key people.

I doubt even the SAS would be asked to get involved in what would more than likely be a suicide mission in the middle of Tehran.

That may be so ... but there are roads that go through Iran's intelligence, if they wish, but since this is a result of previous diplomatic transactions between countries, it serves the United Kingdom to strangle other avenues for Iran.

Ironically on this same day 68 years ago Tehran was the meeting place for three very important people:

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/...onference.html

This looks terrible similar to 1979 :shifty:
time to pass the ammo in the other Western embassys...

As many people have, just ammo ... long before this event, part of an ambassador standard equipment for self defense.