Oh no, not a sharply worded UN statement! Isn't that a little harsh? Was that really necessary?

As an Iranian poster, something to be cleared about: 1-The embassy of every country is the legal territory of that country wherever it is and nobody can let inside without legal permission. This is clear and the government and police should be highly blamed for sure. 2-Those who attacked the British Embassy in Tehran are not students, but members of "Basij" (pro government vigilante group) and revolutionary guards personnel in civil clothes. If your ignorant media are referring to them as students please keep in mind that the real Iranian students are not in front of British embassy but they are in prison for more than 2 years, or have immigrated to the west to escape these savages, or if they are still in Iran they will soon join one of the two groups mentioned earlier!

Iran has a long history of not understanding what an "embassy" is or the norms of civilized behavior in the modern world. It's a good statement to shut the Norwegian embassy. Besides, the bombing could begin at any time & no one wants to be caught w/ their pants down.

@krokodile Iranian people know better than you and your US bosses what the embassy is and if you think that modern world is the world that such a minds like you live in, you are in a big mistake! Civilization exists in minds not necessarily in the history! However, Iranian people own a long long civilization era (more than your country's foundation of course!) but as long as sick minds like you who are always unaware of people's intelligence and awareness exist in this world, we have the same and common problem!

How stupid of the Norwegian government to jump on the UK's bandwagon.

underskyofnorway. Let's be clear about one thing about your "Iranian civilization". As you are probably quite aware that the Persian empire was pre-islamic ergo it has been ordained by your whacky mullahs as the period of " JAHILIYYA" or the time of ignorance. How is it that you proud Persians call your history and culture a time of ignorance? And if it truly were a time of ignorance how do you justify calling it civilized? If you refute that Persian culture was ignorant are you not committing blasphemy but going against the words of your so called prophet? It is either one or the other. You can't have it both ways. Also I think it is time to outlaw Nowruz too as that to goes against the tenets of your silly cult-like following you call islam.

@GWESQ hahaha...It was really funny for me reading your comment! I don't really understand why most people in the west even don't know that Persian is Persian and Arab is Arab! Please GO AND READ SOME BOOKS BEFORE YOU SAY SOMETHING COMING FROM IGNORANCE OR AT LEAST RESEARCH A LITTLE BIT! Believe me! It's not that difficult! Just try,GOOGLE it at least! Wikipedia: Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations.The first dynasty in Iran formed during the Elamite kingdom in 2800 BC. Darius the Great was declared king (ruled 522–486 BC) and Cyrus the Great established a unified empire of the Medes and Persians leading to the Achaemenid Empire (559–330 BC) and as you know the Cyrus Cylinder is a document issued by Cyrus the Great and regarded by some as a charter of human rights! The Iranian Medes unified Iran into an empire in 625 BC. They were succeeded by the Iranian Achaemenid Empire, the Hellenic Seleucid Empire and two subsequent Iranian empires, the Parthians and the Sassanids, BEFORE THE MUSLIM CONQUEST IN 651 AD!!! You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iran And about Nowruz that you said: Nowruz is an old Persian new year celebration that its history belongs to pre-Islamic era of Persia. Islam came to Iran in 650 AD. Nowruz introduced in time of Zoroastrians.Even the celebration is much older than that date and was surely celebrated by the people and royalty during the Achaemenid times (555-330 BC). Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz Hope it helps to make you awake of your long long sleep era! However, I'm not anymore surprised of such a minds like you these days...

underskyofnorway, I am fully aware of the differences between Arabs and Persians. Apparently you do not read very well as there is nothing in my post save for the word mullah which is the similar to an imam that makes a link between Persians and Arabs. Instead of answering the question, which by the way you can't without being exposed as the hypocrite that most Persian muslims are. How about addressing the subject matter which is how can a muslim be proud of anything from their pre-islamic culture if it has been deemed JAHILIYYA by your phophet? Would that not make you a hypocrite for going against the "word of allah as spoken through your prophet? Sounds a bit like apostasy to me. Let's see if you can try to answer the question this time...

underskyofnorway, Your silence is deafening...

@GWESQ JAHILIYYA is a Arabic name referring to the condition in which Arabs found themselves in pre-Islamic Arabia and Pre-Islamic Arabia existed in the Arabian Plate before the rise of Islam in the 630s. I was talking about Pre-Islamic era of Persia not Pre-Islamic era of Arabia! I told you before. Make some study before you say something! I'm not really sure you have realized the difference yet! Mullah is an Arabic name derived from the Arabic word مَوْلَى mawlā , meaning "vicar", "master" and "guardian". There is no link between Arabs and Persians. The only fact is that I told you before. Islam came to Iran in 650 AD when Arabs attacked Iran and as a result, moved people gradually to find themselves as Muslim and when you are Muslim you should believe in prophet and Allah of course! This is how any religion works (believe in something) that is not totally accepted in my point of view but bear in mind that all this Islam and their prophets belongs to Arabs and their culture NOT ours! Islam has pushed into Iran in course of history and time not up to Iranian people's desires. Arabic culture and religion NEVER belong to Persians even they are recognized as a Muslim Iranians today at least on their ID card. Most of Iranians are proud of their per-Islamic culture because they know how their history and its nice attitudes were and how it has pushed into Islam against their wills. However, religion is not problem itself. You can have your own religion but be a human first! The problem origins from bigoted people who think that they are the only people who go to the heaven and all others are infidel! The problem is when the people like you do not wish to read some books and make every thing mixed up and then label people on their own private religions! Persian attitude learned me to see and love people as a human first. For me, it's nonsense what religion you have. For me, it's important what a good human you are. How you act, how you help people, how free and open mind you are and finally how aware you are!