Iranians Attack British Embassy with Molotov Cocktails

The cartoon wars continued undeterred on Tuesday in Tehran, where "scores of Iranian demonstrators" broke windows with stones and hurled Molotov cocktails at the British embassy between chants of "Death to Tony Blair", "Death to Britain" and Death to America".

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has accused Iran's and Syria's governments of having "gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it." Yesterday, UN S-G Kofi Annan called upon countries that have not stopped the violence to "pick up the bill for the destruction that has been caused to all the foreign countries."

The British embassy in Tehran is no stranger to violent attacks. In May 2004, Reuters reported that "several hundred demonstrators protesting against the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq hurled petrol bombs, firecrackers and stones at the British embassy."