On Saturday, the UK ambassador in Iran, Rob Macaire, was briefly detained for allegedly organizing and participating in ongoing protests in Tehran. A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the incident as “an unacceptable breach of the Vienna Convention” and called for an investigation.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Monday that the UK was “parroting the US line & blindly abetting its terrorist adventurism in our region”. Tehran’s top diplomat questioned the possible outcomes of the UK policy, recalling that “the last time the UK was dragged along to infamy by the US was in the Iraq war”.
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