Why Did Iranian Protesters Storm The UK Embassy? -- CNN
As CNN reports, "Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, breaking down the door, throwing around papers and replacing the British flag with an Iranian one." This act comes just over a week after the U.S. and UK imposed tougher sanctions on Iran.
To get perspective on both the sanctions and the storming of the embassy, I reached out to Dr. Geoffrey Kemp, who served in the White House during the first Reagan administration as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff. In this role, he dealt extensively with Iran.
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