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Iranian students fast to commemorate cutting ties with Britain
Dec 2, 2011, 16:32 GMT
Tehran - A group of Iranian students will fast for three days to commemorate their country's severing ties to Britain, it announced Friday.
'For commemorating and cheering the severance of ties with England, students throughout Iran will make a three-day fasting,' the office for Unity Consolidation, the main students' organization in Iran, said in a statement carried by the ISNA news agency.
While fasting is mainly practiced in the Muslim month of Ramadan, some Muslims also fast outside Ramadan to commemorate a positive development or happening.
Following Tuesday's storming and ransacking of the British embassy by students, Tehran and London have temporarily severed ties.
British diplomats have already left Tehran. Iranians diplomats expelled by the British government were in the process of departing Friday.
The students' group further said in the statement that a large number of students would welcome the expelled Iranian diplomats at Tehran's Mehrabad airport where they are set to arrive late Friday after a charter flight from London.
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