Tehran, Sept 15: A British Embassy residential compound in Tehran has been fired at in the third such shooting incident outside a British diplomatic facility this month, an embassy spokesman said today. The spokesman, Andrew Greenstock, said two shots were fired at the main gate of the north Tehran compound at 1910 IST yesterday, adding that nobody was injured in the shooting.
He said witnesses questioned after the shooting had seen two men on a motorbike fire the shots. The walled compound hit was one of the embassy's main residential facilities where a large proportion of embassy staff are housed. The main embassy in the centre of the city was targetted and hit by gunmen on September 3, and Britain's foreign office authorised the voluntary departure of non-essential members of staff and dependants.
The embassy has since been carrying out "limited functions". In the second incident on September 9, three to four shots were fired outside the British Embassy, sparking an angry diplomatic protest from the embassy here that Iranian authorities were failing to provide adequate security. Bureau Report