“The enemy made an effort to poison the people,” Jannati, who is politically close to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told worshipers gathered in Tehran. “They had planned a velvet revolution before the election … A number of people at the British Embassy were arrested for involvement in the unrests and they will definitely be tried.” Eight or nine employees of the embassy’s political section were arrested last weekend. All but three have been released, according to Iranian state media. European Union nations summoned Iranian ambassadors today to complain about the arrests in a coordinated response, news agencies reported. EU nations are weighing the possibility of pulling all 27 member nations’ ambassadors from Tehran and imposing a travel ban on Iranian officials to protest the arrests, but want to wait for Iran’s next move regarding the embassy employees, European news media reported.”
07/03/2009 10:09
