Iran to protest Britain violent crackdown

Iranian university students plan to gather outside the British embassy in Tehran to protest against violent operations by the UK police and government on protesters in the recent unrest across England.

The protest gathering will be held on Sunday afternoon and demonstrators will chant slogans against Britain’s hostile policies against the oppressed Britons, Mehr news agency reported.

The unrest in Britain began on August 6 in the north London suburb of Tottenham after a few hundred people gathered outside a police station to protest against the fatal shooting and killing of a black man, Mark Duggan, by the police.

The protests have spread to England’s major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol. Several people have also been killed during the government-ordered crackdown on protests.

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has strongly condemned the violent attacks, saying, “The true opposition in Britain is the people that are pushed to the ground and beaten on London streets and slain and yet no one hears their voice.”