Tehran, YJC. National Claims Commission says Iran will reimburse UK on its embassy only if UK makes up for damages it has so far done to the country.
Head of the National Claims Commission of the National
Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Majlis of the Islamic Republic of Iran
in reaction to recent UK claim for damage to its embassy said "In that case if
the Islamic Republic is going to reimburse the UK; besides the fact that we all
saw the attack on the Iranian embassy in London, during the first and second
World Wars there were also big human and material damages done to our country. So
if a make-up is demanded, the UK government will as well have to reimburse Iran
for the World War damages as well as those of the Iranian embassy in London.”
Mahdi Davatgari stated "Direct and indirect intervention by
the UK in our domestic affairs, both before and after the revolution, are
undeniable and hidden to no one. Without a doubt, the UK has to be responsible
for the crime it has done to our country in the past century.”