Smoke rises from Saudi Arabia's embassy during a demonstration in Tehran.
Tehran, Iran - The semiofficial ISNA news agency said the country's top police official, Gen. Hossein Sajedinia, rushed to the scene and police worked to disperse the outraged crowds.
Published: Sun 3 Jan 2016, 10:41 AM
Updated: Mon 4 Jan 2016, 8:37 AM
Protesters in Iran broke into the Saudi embassy in Tehran early on Sunday, setting fires and throwing papers from the roof, Iranian media reported.
The semiofficial ISNA news agency said the country's top police official, Gen. Hossein Sajedinia, rushed to the scene and police worked to disperse the outraged crowds.
In Tehran, the crowd gathered outside the Saudi embassy and some protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the embassy, setting off a fire in part of the building, Sajedinia told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
"Some of them entered the embassy. Currently, individuals who entered the embassy have been transferred out (of the building). However, a large crowd is still there in front of the embassy," Sajedinia told ISNA early Sunday.
Some of the protesters broke into the embassy and threw papers off the roof, and police worked to disperse the crowd, Sajedinia told ISNA. He later told Tasnim that police had removed the protesters from the building and arrested some of them. He said the situation outside the embassy "had been defused."
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