Iran Update: Six (Or Eight) UK Embassy Staff Taken Hostage: Iran Contra Redux?

Iran Update: Six (Or Eight) UK Embassy Staff Taken Hostage: Iran Contra Redux?

Submitted by Tyler Durden

Even more mysterious update #2:

• IRANIAN CENTRAL TV CONFIRMS THAT EIGHT UK EMBASSY STAFF TAKEN HOSTAGE

Mysterious update confirming that something very fishy is going on here:

• IRAN'S MEHR NEWS AGENCY REMOVES REPORT OF HOSTAGE TAKING FROM ITS WEBSITE - NO EXPLANATION GIVEN

Today's developments are rapidly turning into a repeat of Iran-Contra:

• SIX UK EMBASSY STAFF TAKEN HOSTAGE BY PROTESTERS IN NORTHERN COMPOUND OF TEHRAN EMBASSY - MEHR NEWS AGENCY

Expect a very formal, and very forceful UK response imminently.

Once again - got Brent? Source
Previously:

UK Embassy In Tehran Taken Over By Protestors, Building On Fire

Things getting ugly fast.

• IRANIAN PROTESTERS THROW PETROL BOMBS INSIDE
  BRITISH EMBASSY COMPOUND IN TEHRAN, ONE SMALL BUILDING SET ON FIRE
  -STATE BROADCASTER IRIB - RTRS
• IRANIAN PROTESTER ENTERS U.K. EMBASSY COMPOUND IN TEHRAN -BBG
• IRANIAN STUDENTS BROKE INTO BRITISH EMBASSY IN TEHRAN: AP
• U.K. FOREIGN OFFICE AWARE OF REPORT EMBASSY IN IRAN BROKEN INTO -BBG                                            Source

Additional update:
Dozens of Iranian students have stormed the UK embassy in Tehran, chanting “death to England.” Before police intervened, protesters pelted the embassy with stones and petrol bombs, brought down the flag, and destroyed a pile of classified documents.

Reports by the Mehr news agency that six UK staff had been taken hostage when students raided a north Tehran diplomatic compound were withdrawn shortly after they were posted. No explanation was given for the report, nor its removal. Source