TEHRAN: Iran's diplomats expelled from London over the storming of the British embassy in Tehran this week arrived in the Iranian capital early Saturday, Iranian media reported.
The group of diplomats was kept out of sight of waiting media as they passed through back corridors in Tehran's international airport after landing aboard an Iran Air flight.
The diplomats were expelled from London on Friday in retaliation for the violent incursion of Britain's embassy and a second diplomatic compound in Tehran on Tuesday by hundreds of pro-regime Iranian protesters.
Britain, which evacuated all its own diplomats from Tehran for their safety after the attacks, closed its embassy and ordered Iran to do likewise. (AFP)
The group of diplomats was kept out of sight of waiting media as they passed through back corridors in Tehran's international airport after landing aboard an Iran Air flight.
The diplomats were expelled from London on Friday in retaliation for the violent incursion of Britain's embassy and a second diplomatic compound in Tehran on Tuesday by hundreds of pro-regime Iranian protesters.
Britain, which evacuated all its own diplomats from Tehran for their safety after the attacks, closed its embassy and ordered Iran to do likewise. (AFP)