| Iran's Foreign Ministry Summons UK Envoy over Terrorist |
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| Monday, 13 October 2008 08:33 |
 Iran has summoned the British ambassador in Tehran to protest at the release of the only surviving terrorist involved in a 1980 terrorist attack on the Iranian Embassy in London.
Britain's ambassador to Tehran , Jeffrey Adams, was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Department for European Affairs on Sunday. In the meeting, Mehdi Safari, the department's director-general, strongly condemned the British government's decision to free Fowzi Badavi-Nejad, the only surviving terrorist from the 1980 attack on the Iranian Embassy in London. Badavi-Nejad was convicted by a British court in 1981. Terrorists took 26 hostages in their attack on the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980. Two Iranian diplomats were killed in this terrorist attack, and a number of others were injured. One injured diplomat died later on as a result of his injuries. Mahdi Safari questioned the British government's judgment in releasing the only surviving terrorist (convicted felon) who had carried out as attack against a foreign embassy in the UK. Safari said: "Such decisions, following on from the British government's decision to remove the MKO from Britain's official terrorist list, have raised serious doubts for Iran". Britain's ambassador to Tehran , Jeffrey Adams, for his part, said London considers Badavi-Nejad as a terrorist but added that he would be released after serving his sentence. |
