Iran, Britain move forward to restore relations
Iran, Britain move forward to restore relations | The Times of Israel.
Countries to name chargés d’affaires ahead of resumption of embassy activities
British Foreign Secretary William Hague (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90/File)
Iran and Britain will shortly name their respective chargés d’affaires ahead of a resumption of embassy operations within the next eight days, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said Tuesday.
“Iranian and British charge d’affaires are to be appointed in eight days but will not be residing in Tehran and London permanently. They will rather carry out their tasks by making regular visits to the two capitals,” she said at a press conference, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.
The embassies will officially reopen after the non-resident chargés d’affaires begin their terms, she added.
“This would be considered as the start of Tehran-London diplomatic relations,” Afkham said.
Iranian and British diplomats began discussing the restoration of ties during the UN General Assembly meeting in September. Earlier this month, British Foreign Secretary William Hague proposed in a phone call with counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif that the two countries appoint non-resident chargés d’affaires.
Iranian-British relations took a downturn in November 2011 when Britain decided to impose sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran over the country’s rogue nuclear program. First, Iranian lawmakers voted by a large majority to downgrade ties with the UK, and two days later, hundreds of Iranian students protested outside the British Embassy in Tehran, pulling down the British flag. The next day, London withdrew its diplomatic staff from Iran and the Iranian embassy in London was closed.
Since the incident British interests in Iran were represented by the local Swedish embassy, and Iranian interests in London by the embassy of Oman.
Last week, Iran and six world powers, including Britain, finished a round of high-level talks on Iran’s nuclear program, with a new round expected to be held next month.
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WarSclerotic 
October 23, 2013 at 5:14 AM
betrayal of Israel. Britain is throwing Israel under the bus. no surprise. hope the brits will pay for their treachery.
October 23, 2013 at 5:44 AM
Don’t be too surprised. Read my previous comments regarding the brits. I don’t see this as a treachery because they never did something else to us, starting from the moment the first jews attempt the Palestine shores after the war. Remember ? So those britches are consistent in their policy. No surprises here, as far as I’m concerned.
October 23, 2013 at 6:48 AM
My opinion : Because of the hostile attitude of the English towards Israel, the former UK will further fall apart and finally lose its last island, which is England……. Its not only the gourmets that wont cry for you England…You cant miss the writing on the wall, but maybe thats another form of cow disease….
October 23, 2013 at 7:20 AM
But this whole thing about Iran is just too absurd. The Brits of all people should know better. There are so many good books covering the appeasement period from 1933- 1939: Churchill’s The Gathering Storm, William Manchester’s The Last Lion, Alone, 1932-1940, Lynne Olson’s Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England.
An unteachable bunch indeed.
October 23, 2013 at 2:30 PM
Read something about england and the Jews
October 23, 2013 at 4:15 PM
I do not get the relevance. The Iranian threat is global. If Iran gets nuclear weapons Britain would the as threatened as Israel. Are you saying that the Brits are so obsessed with Jews that because of that they cannot see the real danger emanating from Iran?
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/A-View-from-Israel-Deterrence-is-irrelevant
Iran is led by a group of irrational men who believe they can hurry the arrival of the Mahdi – the 12th Imam who, according to Shi’ite Islamic tradition, went missing in 874 CE and will return under conditions of global chaos. The Iranian leadership appears willing to sacrifice the population of its own country to achieve this goal.
In his book The Rise of Nuclear Iran, former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold writes, “Mahdi Khaliji, an Iranian Shi’ite scholar… has noted that there are apocalyptic hadiths [received Shi’ite traditions] that the Mahdi will not return unless one-third of the world population is killed and another third die. But Ahmadinejad and his followers believe man can actively create the conditions for the Mahdi’s arrival in the here and now…”
October 23, 2013 at 2:31 PM
BBC Ottoman documentary erases Israel
October 23, 2013 at 2:32 PM
October 23, 2013 at 10:02 PM
@Mladen
start somewhere whit the ottoman reich , first ww and so on , from nazi barbwire till english barbwire perhaps you find the relevance and n the mean while do not forget Churchill the hero the big friend of the Jews.