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British Embassy in Tehran Closed after Shooting

British embassy in the Iranian capital of Tehran has been closed after being hit by gunfire from a nearby street, the British Foreign Office said on Wednesday.

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British embassy in the Iranian capital of Tehran has been closed after being hit by gunfire from a nearby street, the British Foreign Office said on Wednesday.

No one was injured in the incident, a spokesman for the Foreign Office said.

Five shots were fired on the embassy building just before midday (Tehran local time), breaking windows and entering the building, reports said.

The incident came hours after reports that Iran had temporarilyrecalled its ambassador to Britain amid escalating tension betweenthe two countries.

Iranian ambassador to Britain Morteza Sarmadi was reportedly recalled after failing to win concessions following the arrest in Britain of Hade Soleimanpour, Iran's former ambassador to Argentina.

Britain, which denied the arrest was "politically motivated," Friday refused to grant bail to the former Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement in a terrorist bombing that left 85 people dead in a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994.

Soleimanpour, who has been in Britain since last February and works as a research assistant at Durham University, was arrested weeks ago by British police acting on an international extraditionwarrant issued by Argentina, which has long believed that Iran wasbehind the Buenos Aires bomb attack, a charge Tehran has repeatedly denied.

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