This may be a nothing story or it may be something we should be paying attention to. I honestly don't know, so I am just putting it out here.
Press TV reported today that the British Embassy in Tehran is closed until further notice. Iran's chargé d'affaires has recently tightened rules for visa issuance and instigated disputes and physical encounters between the people who were applying for visas and security personnel.
The article explains:
"The claimed security problem was enough for the people who were furious over irregularities to engage in physical encounters with the diplomatic police, the reports said.
"An unnamed embassy source also said that they have received text messages in which they are ordered not to return to work until further notice.
"Recently, there have been several reports of irregularities at the British embassy in Tehran, the last example of which was its refusal to issue entry visas for several Iranian private sector publishers who had applied for visas to attend the International London Book Fair."
I think if I were a diplomat there are places I would rather be stationed than Iran.
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