Mainstream Media is not touching this story here in the states interestingly enough… At least I’m not seeing it yet…
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Four men dressed in black raided the Iranian embassy in London Friday afternoon, reportedly threatening staffers with machetes and baseball bats before climbing the façade of the building and taking down the Iranian flag.
Iranian media reported that the slogans chanted by the attackers indicate that they are members of Sadeq Shirazi, a Britain-based Shiite religious sect. BBC Persian contributor Hossein Aghaie confirmed the information on Twitter, adding that Shirazi’s son Hossein was recently arrested for criticizing Iran’s leadership.
According to the Fars News Agency, the raiders broke into embassy premises at 4:30 p.m. local time, menaced people on the scene with their weapons, then climbed the embassy building to take down the Iranian flag.
Footage posted on social media shows the men on the embassy’s balcony, waving a blue and white flag with inscriptions in Arabic.
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