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West warns Iran over protests

Britain summons envoy

AFP, London
Britain summoned Iran's ambassador yesterday as the international powers made new warnings to the Tehran leadership over the handling of election result demonstrations.
A European Union summit called on Iran not to use violence against peaceful demonstrators. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern over the number of arrests in a clampdown on the protests.
Iran's ambassador to London was summoned to the Foreign Office, a British spokesman said, in a new sign of the diplomatic strains caused by the disputed election which Iranian authorities say returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a second term as president.
The Foreign Office spokesman did not say why the ambassador. Rasoul Movahedian. was summoned, but the action came after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei singled out Britain for criticism in a speech.
"Today, top diplomats of several Western countries who talked to us so far within diplomatic formalities are show-ing their real face and most of all, the British government,” Khamenei said in a speech in Tehran
On Tuesday the Iranian government summoned the British and Czech ambassadors to protest against the British and EU reactions to deadly post-election unrest inTehran.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said his government would carry on cricitising Iran and that "the whole world is watching” the events in Tehran.
Brown and other EU leaders discussed the clampdown at a Brussels summit, which called on the Iranian government to allow peaceful protests.
The leaders "urged the Iranian authorities to ensure that all Iranians are granted the right to assemble and to express themselves peacefully," said a summit statement.
"The authorities should refrain from the use of force against peaceful demon strations," it added.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Iran not to "go beyond the point of no return."
Sarkozy said Europe should not give the impression that it is interfering in
Iran's domestic affairs. "1 am always in favour of dialogue with Iran, but when we have to condemn, we condemn "
US President Barack Obama has been criticised by opposition Republicans of not giving strong enough support to the Tehran demonstrators.
Obama has stressed that universal rights to protest peacefully should be respected In Iran, but has refused to pick sides in the showdown between Ahmadinejad and his challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.
He has warned that US "meddling" in Iran's internal politics would be counterproductive, and vowed to push forward his engagement policy with Iran.
It is a stance that has left some lawmakers fuming. Senator John McCain. Obama's Republican rival in the US election, described Obama's response as "tepid," and blasted him for abandoning "fundamental" US principles.
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay expressed concern over the use of "excessive force" to quell the Tehran protests in which at least seven people have been killed.