Iran police clear angry students from around Italian Embassy

Buenos Aires News.Net
Tuesday 9th February, 2010

Protesters in Iran have attacked Italy's embassy.

The protests turned hostile as the crowd shouted slogans against Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who announced in Israel last week that Italy would scale back its economic dealings with Iran.

While protesters threw stones and fruit at the Italian embassy, none of them managed to get inside due to police action.

During the demonstration, police became concerned the crowd would storm the building after they started chanting the word "takeover."

In 1979, students took over the US Embassy.

University students also gathered at the gates of the French and Italian embassies to express their anger at what they said was support for Iran's opposition movement.

After the incident, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Italian ambassador to protest Berlusconi's remarks.

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