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Britain yesterday ordered the closure of Iran’s embassy in London and expelled its diplomats in retaliation for frenzied mobs attacking the UK’s two diplomatic compounds in Tehran.

William Hague announced the dramatic move shortly after all British diplomats were flown out of the Iranian capital to Dubai for their own safety.

The Foreign Secretary also said the British Embassy in Tehran was shutting following Tuesday’s violence.

He unveiled the measures in a strongly-worded Commons statement denouncing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline regime.

Retaliation: Foreign Secretary William Hague today told the Commons he had ordered the closure of the Iranian Embassy in London after the British Embassy in Iran was attacked yesterday. All British staff have been evacuated from the country;

Security concerns: Police officers are deployed outside the Iranian Embassy in central London today after Hague expelled all its staff;

Last night it was reported that Britain, along with Germany and France, was preparing to bolster economic sanctions by banning oil imports from the Islamic republic.
Iran said the decision to close its embassy was ‘hasty’ and would lead to further retaliation.
The speaker of Iran’s parliament criticised the UN Security Council over its condemnation of the embassy in Tehran and said the resolution, passed unanimously yesterday, put global security at risk.
'The hasty move in the Security Council in condemning the students’ actions was done to cover up previous crimes of America and Britain while the police did all they could to keep the peace,' Ali Larijani told parliament in an address broadcast live on state radio.
'This devious action will lead to instability in global security,' he said.
The developments plunged already-strained relations with Iran to their worst in decades.
Announcing that he had told Iran’s ambassador to shut its embassy in London and order diplomats to leave within 48 hours, Mr Hague said: ‘If any country makes it impossible for us to operate on their soil, they cannot expect to have a functioning embassy here.
'The Iranian charge (d'affaires) in London is being informed now that we require the immediate closure of the Iranian embassy in London and that all Iranian diplomatic staff must leave the United Kingdom within the next 48 hours.

Protesters break into the British Embassy and tear down the Union Jack. Some then proceeded to ransack offices;

Clashes: Students wearing some form of purple and green bandanna with Islamic writing on it push against riot police who had been protecting the embassy;

A car goes up in flames as an Iranian protester fearing an explosion flees across the road inside the British Embassy;