DEMONSTRATORS BROKE INTO THE IRANIAN EMBASSY OUTSIDE STOCKHOLM
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
26.06.2009 23:38 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Angry demonstrators broke into the Iranian Embassy
outside Stockholm on Friday, climbing in through shattered windows
and injuring one embassy worker, police said.
More than 150 people had gathered outside the embassy to protest
against the Iranian regime, when some of them attacked the building
with rocks and tore down a fence to enter the embassy grounds, police
spokesman Ulf Hoglund said.
"A few managed to climb through broken windows into the building,"
Hoglund said. He said one member of the embassy staff was injured
inside the building, but didn’t know how seriously.
Fifty police officers and an ambulance were dispatched to the
scene. Hoglund said police had evicted the demonstrators from the
building and arrested one person.
Organizers of the demonstration said a few of the protesters were
injured in clashes with the embassy’s security officers.
"We want a regime change," said Firouzeh Ghaffrpour, one of the
organizers. "The Islamic system is not wanted by the people of Iran."
The protesters, mostly Iranians, also demanded the embassy be closed,
AP reported.