Iran cleric threatens trial for British embassy staff
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TEHRAN: A powerful Iranian cleric said yesterday that British embassy local staff arrested for allegedly stoking post-election unrest will be put on trial, a move that prompted coordinated protests from European governments. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was "urgently seeking clarification" about the announcement as governments across the 27-nation European Union called in Iranian ambassadors. In these incidents, their embassy had a presence, some people were arrested. Naturally they will be put on trial, they have made confessions," Ahmad Jannati,...
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