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The UK Foreign Office has cited International law in its reaction to the British embassy in Tehran's incident, while it has failed to protect the Iranian embassy in London several times before.
Under the international law, including the Vienna Convention, the Iranian government have a clear duty to protect diplomats and embassies in their country and expect them to act urgently to bring the situation under control and ensure the safety of our staff and security of our property, said a Foreign Office spokesperson.
The statement was made after a group of Iranian students outraged by the UK government's enmities towards the Islamic Republic of Iran stormed the British embassy in Tehran in a show of anger at British policies.
Iranian foreign ministry rejected the move by a number of protestors as unacceptable and a source of regret and reiterated the Iranian government's commitment to protect the diplomatic missions under the Vienna convention.
That came despite repeated failures of the British government in the past to stay committed to the same convention when Iranian missions in Britain were attacked.
In 1980, a group of six gunmen affiliated to an anti-Iranian terrorist group stormed the Iranian embassy building in South Kensington, London, taking 26 people hostage - mostly embassy staff - from 30 April to 5 May.
The embassy siege resulted in the death of two of hostages including one diplomat and ended with the intervention of Special Air Force (SAS) unit of the British Army.
The Iranian embassy had earlier written to the British Foreign Office to demand that they take the necessary measures to provide security to the mission.
The hostage taking took place exactly two days after the Foreign Office ensured the Iranian diplomats that the embassy will be protected.
All the hostage-takers, but one, were killed during the days-long crisis.
The remaining terrorist was prosecuted and jailed for life, but was later released in violation of the Vienna Convention and despite the fact that he was a member of the MKO group, listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union.
The embassy building, having suffered major damage from a fire that broke out during the assault, remained closed for 13 years and was re-opened as the Iranian embassy in 1993.
A former MI6 officer revealed in 1997 that London Metropolitan Police had engineered the attacked.
The officer who was a top consultant to the Met chief at the time of the incident said the embassy's siege and occupation and killing of Iranian diplomats were planned by the MI6 chief who had employed a number of Iraqi terrorists affiliated with the spy agency to carry out his plot.
Back in 2008 a fire bomb was hurled at the embassy in Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge, yet the Scotland Yard only launched an investigation with the probe leading nowhere.
Later in the follow-up to the 2009 presidential election in Iran, the Iranian embassy was targeted several times.
The attackers were put under arrest by the British police but the same individuals kept coming in and launching further assaults in the following days while the embassy was the target of a raft of attacks in the following years.
In May 2010, a group of anarchists attacked the Iranian embassy in London again, smashed the building's windows and inflicted damage to property.
Only months later in December, a parcel sent to the Consulate of the Iranian embassy in London exploded outside the building.
Foreign ministry sources said at the time that embassy officials had raised concerns with the British government over suspicious parcels sent to the mission but they were ignored.
The sources also said that the indifference of British officials to the embassy warnings were influential in the persistence of the attackers.
PressTV - UK cries foul over Iran mission incident
Under the international law, including the Vienna Convention, the Iranian government have a clear duty to protect diplomats and embassies in their country and expect them to act urgently to bring the situation under control and ensure the safety of our staff and security of our property, said a Foreign Office spokesperson.
The statement was made after a group of Iranian students outraged by the UK government's enmities towards the Islamic Republic of Iran stormed the British embassy in Tehran in a show of anger at British policies.
Iranian foreign ministry rejected the move by a number of protestors as unacceptable and a source of regret and reiterated the Iranian government's commitment to protect the diplomatic missions under the Vienna convention.
That came despite repeated failures of the British government in the past to stay committed to the same convention when Iranian missions in Britain were attacked.
In 1980, a group of six gunmen affiliated to an anti-Iranian terrorist group stormed the Iranian embassy building in South Kensington, London, taking 26 people hostage - mostly embassy staff - from 30 April to 5 May.
The embassy siege resulted in the death of two of hostages including one diplomat and ended with the intervention of Special Air Force (SAS) unit of the British Army.
The Iranian embassy had earlier written to the British Foreign Office to demand that they take the necessary measures to provide security to the mission.
The hostage taking took place exactly two days after the Foreign Office ensured the Iranian diplomats that the embassy will be protected.
All the hostage-takers, but one, were killed during the days-long crisis.
The remaining terrorist was prosecuted and jailed for life, but was later released in violation of the Vienna Convention and despite the fact that he was a member of the MKO group, listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union.
The embassy building, having suffered major damage from a fire that broke out during the assault, remained closed for 13 years and was re-opened as the Iranian embassy in 1993.
A former MI6 officer revealed in 1997 that London Metropolitan Police had engineered the attacked.
The officer who was a top consultant to the Met chief at the time of the incident said the embassy's siege and occupation and killing of Iranian diplomats were planned by the MI6 chief who had employed a number of Iraqi terrorists affiliated with the spy agency to carry out his plot.
Back in 2008 a fire bomb was hurled at the embassy in Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge, yet the Scotland Yard only launched an investigation with the probe leading nowhere.
Later in the follow-up to the 2009 presidential election in Iran, the Iranian embassy was targeted several times.
The attackers were put under arrest by the British police but the same individuals kept coming in and launching further assaults in the following days while the embassy was the target of a raft of attacks in the following years.
In May 2010, a group of anarchists attacked the Iranian embassy in London again, smashed the building's windows and inflicted damage to property.
Only months later in December, a parcel sent to the Consulate of the Iranian embassy in London exploded outside the building.
Foreign ministry sources said at the time that embassy officials had raised concerns with the British government over suspicious parcels sent to the mission but they were ignored.
The sources also said that the indifference of British officials to the embassy warnings were influential in the persistence of the attackers.
PressTV - UK cries foul over Iran mission incident
