Tehran, Aug 23, IRNA A group of people not more than 40 gathered in front of British embassy on Sunday afternoon to protest visit of Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to Iran and reopening British embassy. Interior Ministry said that the protesters got no permission for the gathering. The group disrupted law and order on the streets ...

Britains foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, will formally reopen the UK embassy in Tehran this weekend, nearly four years after it was shut down as a result of a mob attack. The Iranian embassy in London will be reopened at the same time, as part of a rapid warming of relations betweenIranand the west following the agreement reached on 14 July on ...

The foreign ministers of Britishand Iranmet on the sidelines of a conference in Afghanistan on Thursday, the highest level diplomatic contact between the two nations since students stormed the British embassy in Tehran last November. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and his Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi conferred ...

Former foreign secretary speaks out against 'damaging' decision, saying it handed victoryto regimehardliners Britain's former foreign secretary has said it was a mistake for the UK to close down its embassy in Tehran, as it handed a victory to hardliners within the regime and weakened Britain's influence and understanding ofIran. William Haguewithdrew ...

Tehran (dpa) - In a rare move, the spokesman of Irans Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on Sunday criticized the November 2011 storming by Islamists of the British embassy in Tehran. "We should not fall into the trap of US and Zionist plots against Iran by doing emotional and superficial acts like the storming of the British embassy in Tehran," General ...