Iranian Basijj plots UK embassy seizure
- January 30, 2010
- News
<p> <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Iranian sources report that the Basijj militia chiefs have a plan to seize the British embassy in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tehran</st1:city></st1:place>. Western intelligence agencies monitoring <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> have warned <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> that radical groups are secretly preparing to overrun the British embassy buildings and living quarters and take the diplomats hostage, replicating the siege of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> embassy in 1979, when extremist students held the staff hostage for 444 days. Those students were the early nucleus of the radical Revolutionary Guards Corps.<br /> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region> maintains two embassy compounds in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tehran</st1:place></st1:city> – one …