Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Angry Iranians attack French Embassy in Tehran

Holding posters of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, demonstrators chant slogans in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, during a protest the publication of caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad by a French satirical weekly. Dozens of Iranian students and clerics gathered outside the embassy and chanted "Death to France" and "Down with the U.S." and burned the representation of the U.S. and Israeli flags Thursday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Holding posters of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, demonstrators chant slogans in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, late last month.


Rioters angry over anti-Islam film and Muhammad cartoons smash up police post outside embassy. Around 30 arrested.

TEHRAN, Iran - - Dozens of Iranians angered over an anti-Islam film made in the U.S. and caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a weekly in France have attacked the French Embassy in Tehran.
Shop vendors and residents in the area say protesters smashed a police guard post outside the embassy and a bulletin board at the embassy wall.
The say about 30 protesters were arrested following the attack on Tuesday morning.
The witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for their own safety.
Since the film's appearance, outraged Muslims around the world have rallied against it.
Iranians have held regular peaceful protests denouncing the film and the caricatures. State TV showed several rallies in cities around Iran on Tuesday but the embassy protest was apparently not officially endorsed and was not mentioned.
Source:www.nydailynews.com
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