<p>Raising anti-Britain slogans, the furious protesters, most of them students from Tehran universities, urged the government to expel the British ambassador from Iran, Xinhua reported. <br /><br />Some of the protesters clashed with the embassy guards and climbed over the gate of the compound.</p>.<p>The rampage occurred a day after a vote by Iran's highest legislative body, Guardian Council of the Constitution, unanimously approved reducing diplomatic ties with Britain in response to its "hostile" policy against Iran.<br /><br />Britain severed all links with the Iranian banks last week as part of its new sanctions imposed in the wake of a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that expressed concern over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme. <br /><br />A witness told Xinhua the protesters set fire to the British flag after pulling it down and replacing it with Iran's national flag.<br /><br />Local TV showed some protesters smashing windows of the embassy building. <br />Riot police failed to prevent the students from entering the embassy, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Raising anti-Britain slogans, the furious protesters, most of them students from Tehran universities, urged the government to expel the British ambassador from Iran, Xinhua reported. <br /><br />Some of the protesters clashed with the embassy guards and climbed over the gate of the compound.</p>.<p>The rampage occurred a day after a vote by Iran's highest legislative body, Guardian Council of the Constitution, unanimously approved reducing diplomatic ties with Britain in response to its "hostile" policy against Iran.<br /><br />Britain severed all links with the Iranian banks last week as part of its new sanctions imposed in the wake of a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that expressed concern over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme. <br /><br />A witness told Xinhua the protesters set fire to the British flag after pulling it down and replacing it with Iran's national flag.<br /><br />Local TV showed some protesters smashing windows of the embassy building. <br />Riot police failed to prevent the students from entering the embassy, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.<br /><br /></p>