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Iranians burn Union Jack after British ambassador Rob Macaire is detained
Unrest has been growing since the assassination of the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week ReutersIranian protesters burnt the Union Jack outside the British embassy in Tehran as a diplomatic crisis over the arrest of the UK ambassador grew. A crowd of hardline religious students and regime supporters chanted “Death to England” and called for the expulsion of Rob Macaire, the ambassador. On Saturday Mr Macaire was detained in Tehran for half an hour after he left a vigil in memory of the 176 people killed on board a Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran last week. Rob Macaire joined the embassy in Tehran in 2018Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister, claimed that Mr Macaire was arrested “as an unknown foreigner” and was released as soon as his credentials had been checked. Aladin Boroujerdi, a former head of the Iranian parliament’s foreign…
Source: The Times January 12, 2020 12:04 UTC
