Iran lawmaker warns of consequences for British embassy site visit

Dec 4, 2011, 17:54 GMT

Tehran - An Iranian lawmaker said that diplomats in Tehran would face consequences for having visited the attacked British embassy and residential compound, the website of the Jame Jam Online reported Sunday.

The embassy of Poland - which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union - on Thursday arranged a tour for foreign diplomats and Western media in Tehran to visit the British residential compound and the embassy after Tuesday's storming by students.

While police did not allow the media to cover the visit, the diplomats - reportedly an ambassador, charge d'affaires and attaché level - visited the two venues and were reportedly shocked by the extent of damages caused by the students' attack.

'This was a political carnival and and ugly and shameless act,' said Fatemeh Alia, member of the parliament's foreign policy commission.

'The parliament will present a bill to confront these diplomats for this initiative which was beyond all diplomatic norms,' she added.

She did not elaborate what would await the diplomats but said that the bill would be examined in the parliament as emergency in less than two weeks.

The diplomats were reportedly from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

The attack on the British embassy not only caused a diplomatic row between Iran and Britain - both closed the embassies and returned their diplomats - but also between Tehran and the EU.

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