UK Ready to Open Embassy in Iran
On 29 November, 2011, a crowd of about 1,000 people demonstrated near the British embassy in Tehran after Britain cut all financial ties with Iran over concerns about its nuclear program. A few days earlier, Iran’s parliament voted to expel the British ambassador since relations had deteriorated.
In a conversation on Monday between the British Foreign Secretary William Hague and his Iranian counterpart Muhammad Javad Sheriff, the developments in Iraq came to fore, New York Times reported the office of British Prime Minister David Cameron as saying. They shared concern about the advancement of the militants in Iraq and willingness for military cooperation.
On Tuesday, the Britain announced that “the circumstances are right” to reopen the British Embassy in Tehran and that it would establish a small presence there as soon as it is practical.
Full diplomatic ties were suspended in 2011 after attacks on Britain’s diplomatic compound in Tehran, but relations have been improving ever since a change in political leadership in Iran last year and progress in international talks on Iran’s nuclear programme.
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