George and Dave, the playground bullies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...#disqus_thread
Iran expels Britain's ambassador to Tehran calling 'death to England'
Iran erupted in a fresh frenzy of animosity towards its old imperial foe on Sunday as MPs chanting "death to England" voted to expel Britain's ambassador to Tehran and threatened his mission with a reprise of the 1979 hostage crisis.
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Dominic Chilcott, who took up the position of ambassador just a month ago, could be forced to leave the country within weeks after a motion to downgrade Iran's diplomatic ties with Britain was passed overwhelmingly by the Islamist republic's parliament. The step was taken after Britain, Canada and the United States announced fresh sanctions against Iran last week in the wake of a report by UN weapons inspectors which provided the most compelling case yet that Tehran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.
Britain was singled out, however, after it became the first state to impose direct sanctions on Iran's central bank. Financial institutions in the City were also banned from doing business with their Iranian counterparts. Despite pressure from Israel, Washington has baulked at following suit, arguing that such a step would cause deep financial pain for ordinary Iranians and could cause the price of oil to soar. If its central bank faced widespread international sanctions, Iran would find it virtually impossible to import and export oil, food and other commodities except on the black market.
It is the first time in the UK's postwar history that Britain has imposed a total boycott on the entire banking industry of a foreign state. Iranian MPs were incandescent in their fury towards Britain, known by many in Iran as "the Old Fox". After announcing that the motion had been carried by 171 votes to three, Ali Larijani, the hawkish speaker, warned that even tougher penalties would be imposed on Britain, saying: "this is just the beginning of the road."
The resolution, which declared the British government to be "worse than the devil", must now be approved by Iran's Guardian Council. It is unlikely that the body's spiritual elders, whose main role is to ensure that legislation cannot be deemed un-Islamic, would block the move. Once the council has bestowed its blessing, Mr Chilcott would be ejected from the country and Iran's ambassador to London recalled. The respective missions would be run at charge d'affaires level, as they were just a few months ago.
For many MPs, the censure was not strong enough. "This plan should be firmer and stronger against Britain," Mahmoud Bighash, one legislator, told the house. "Having relations with Britain, even with one representative, is a total betrayal and we should padlock the British embassy."
Big brave Britain with its brave leaders along the lines of George Osborne, David Cameron and Tony Blair taking care of naughty Iran - all such big, brave men who of course have never taken down a foreign regime without the help or consent of the United States. A group of men, and a government, who talk tough on small third world nations which can't defend themselves, but won't dare stand up to the likes of the People's Republic of China and co. A group of men who have never served in the armed forces yet are always god willing wanting to go into fruitless foreign adventures which are none of our concern, usually on the basis of a lie.
I'm no fan of the Iranian government however that does not excuse the fact that we, the west, started this entire conflict regarding Iran which traces back to 1953 when the CIA overthrew the Iranian government and installed the pro-western Shah who ran a dictorial state - the blowback ultimately came in 1979 when the Islamic militants gained popular support and overthrew the Shah.
Lets face it, Iran has every right to acquire nuclear weapons and we know why they might want to; we helped supply Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war against Iran, the United States is constantly threatening to undermine Iran as a sovereign state with its six military bases that surround the country along with turning a blind eye to the Israeli nuclear weapons programme - so you can see why Iran just might want nuclear weapons! (if of course it is seeking to acquire weapons, cough Iraq cough)
So another act of British aggression from the so-called 'free market' politicians against Iran, and yet we sit here wondering and worrying about a third world country while we are the ones actively seeking to undermine Iran/declare economical and political warfare on Iran.
Thoughts? are you afraid of a country which can barely order itself let alone declare war on the west?
