London: Iranian diplomats in London left Britain on Friday after being expelled following an attack on the British embassy in Tehran, the Foreign Office said.
“I can confirm that, earlier this afternoon, all diplomatic staff of the Iranian embassy in London took off from Heathrow airport,” a spokesman was quoted as saying by local media.
Foreign Secretary William Hague had given Iran’s diplomats 48 hours to close the embassy and leave the country after the attack on Britain’s mission in Tehran on Tuesday.
Several European nations, including France, Germany and Italy, also recalled their ambassadors in a show of solidarity, and the European Union on Thursday declared it would take “appropriate measures” to hit back at what it saw as an attack on the EU as a whole.
