UK Hopes to Re-Open Tehran Embassy

LONDON (Dispatches) -- Britain hopes to re-open its embassy in Iran before the end of the year, Foreign Minister Philip Hammond said on Wednesday following an agreement between Iran and six major world powers over Tehran's nuclear program.

Date: 15 July 2015 - 21:33

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"I very much hope that we will be in a position to re-open our respective embassies before the end of the year," Hammond said in parliament. The re-opening was dependent on resolving some technical issues, he added, without elaborating.
Britain said in June last year that it intended to reopen its embassy in Tehran "within months". Diplomatic relations were suspended and the embassy was closed after hundreds of Iranian demonstrators stormed the building in November 2011.
Meanwhile, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has criticized the occupying regime of Israel's opposition to a nuclear deal agreed by six world powers and Iran, saying the agreement will help contribute to security in the Middle East.
"This is a responsible deal and Israel should also take a closer look at it and not criticize the agreement in a very coarse way," Steinmeier told German broadcaster ARD in an interview on Wednesday.
Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu described the deal as a "stunning, historic mistake" and claimed it would enable Iran to pursue a path to nuclear weapons.
But Steinmeier said the basis for the agreement was transparency and the ability to monitor Iran's compliance.
"In the agreement, Iran has to commit to these monitoring possibilities. And we will make sure that the monitoring possibilities are also observed after this deal," he said.
U.S. President Barack Obama underscored the United States' commitment to the Zionist regime’s security in a phone conversation with Netanyahu, the White House said on Tuesday.
Obama noted on the call that U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter will be traveling to Occupied Palestine next week, the White House said in a statement.