Iran summons British envoy over attack on its Embassy in London

Iran has summoned the British ambassador to Tehran over an attack on the Islamic Republic's diplomatic mission in London.

"Following an assault by a number of individuals affiliated to an extremist religious group on the Islamic Republic of Iran's Embassy in London, the country's ambassador was summoned by the director general for Europe affairs [at the Iranian Foreign Ministry] today," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday, Press TV reported.

He added that the Iranian official expressed Tehran’s strong protest over the incident and called on the British government to fulfill its duties to protect diplomats and diplomatic missions and increase the security measures for the Islamic Republic's missions.

The British envoy, in turn, expressed his regret over the attack and offered a report on the British police's measures to arrest the attackers.

He said he would immediately inform his country of Iran’s message.

A number of attackers scaled the wall of Iran's Embassy building in London on Friday and took down the Iranian flag.

The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported that British police carried out no measure to protect the compound during the attack.

Qassemi on Friday strongly condemned the attack on the Islamic Republic's Embassy in London, urging swift action to counter the attackers.

A senior aid to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on Saturday lashed out at the British government for failing to fulfill its duty to protect the Iranian Embassy in the UK following the attack.

"Certainly, the British government is responsible for maintaining security for political missions in this country, including Iran's Embassy in London," Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior international affairs adviser to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, told reporters in Tehran.

responsibility to prevent a number of foreign agents from carrying out the assault.

It is not unlikely that the attackers had had links with certain movements in Britain, he said.

Velayati emphasized that the UK government must be held accountable for its failure to prevent the attack on the Iranian Embassy.

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