Shooting Attack on British Embassy, 'Suspicious' Act

Shooting Attack on British Embassy, 'Suspicious' Act
2003/09/05

TEHRAN Sept. 5 (Mehr News Agency) – A political analyst said here Friday that the shooting attack on the British Embassy in Tehran was a 'suspicious' act, redounding to the interests of Britain, but to the detriment of Iran.

Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh told the Mehr News Agency that the U.S. and Britain are using every opportunity to win international opposition against Iran, adding that such incidents could mar Iran’s national interests and threaten its international position.

“The British government has continued to challenge London-Tehran relations since the inception of the Islamic Revolution,” Ghadiri Abyaneh said.

“The arrest of former diplomat Hadi Soleimanpour in connection with the Buenos Aires bombing was an act that ran counter to the interests of the two countries.”

Soleimanpour was Iran's ambassador to Argentina at the time of the 1994 bombing.

He said that such acts would only underpin Britain’s colonialist tendencies toward Iran.

Ghadiri Abyaneh further said the British government would regret if it did not adopt proper policies toward Iran.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the analyst said that a satisfactory relation built on mutual interests would prove fruitful for the two countries, adding that the domineering British policies would only strain its relations with Iran.

Dr. Ghadiri Abyaneh
http://www.ghadiri.org/archives/000378.html