The New York Times
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 -- 9:17 AM EST
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Britain Downgrades Diplomatic Ties With Iran; Orders London Embassy Shut
Britain said on Wednesday that it had closed its embassy in Tehran, withdrawn all its diplomats and ordered Iran to do the same within 48 hours at its own diplomatic mission in London in the worst rupture of relations in decades.
The measures were announced in Parliament by Foreign Secretary William Hague a day after Iranian protesters shouting "Death to England" stormed the British Embassy compound and a diplomatic residence in Tehran, tearing down the British flag, smashing windows, defacing walls and briefly detaining six staff members in what appeared to be a state-sponsored protest against Britain's tough new economic sanctions against Iran.
The attack was the most serious diplomatic breach since the traumatic assault on the American Embassy after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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