Evening,
Considering what has been dominating the news agenda these past few days, with the passing of a certain Mr Jackson the ever-fluid situation in Iran seems to have gone off the media radar - however the news today that some eight Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran could, certainly in Britain at least begin to concentrate minds in Westminster.
The language used by the government has been encouraging, the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats as part of a tit-for-tat diplomatic roulette game seems boring and pointless, particularly to those who are continuing to demostrate on the streets of Tehran, Istafan and Shiraz who are taking their lives into their own hands by continuing their resistance to the demands of the Supreme Leader.
What else is there can Britain, the E.U or the wider international community can do to pressure the regime in Tehran to listen to the protesters - instead of pepper them down with bullets, or are we going to sit on our hands and wait for things to get worse, or even more dire, for events to kick off closer to home to force our hand. History teaches us, that we must cut the head off, before it is able to spread it's bile to the rest of the world - or do politicians never learn from past mistakes?
Rob :(
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