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February 10, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/09/world/international-us-iran-italy-attack.html

Pro-Government Protestors Attack Italian Embassy in Tehran

(Reuters-New York Times) Italy said Iran's hardline religious Basij militia tried to attack its embassy in Tehran on Tuesday. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told a Senate hearing: "About a hundred Basij dressed as civilians tried to assault the embassy shouting 'Death to Italy' and 'Death to (Prime Minister) Berlusconi'." He said the attackers hurled stones at the embassy, but Iranian police intervened to "stop a full-blown assault." "This type of demonstration is orchestrated by the regime," the Italian ambassador in Tehran, Alberto Bradanini, told Repubblica TV.

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