Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran face the prospect of a show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic. Tensions between the Iranian theocracy and the EU rose as a hardline Ayatollah accused Britain of attempting to undermine the regime and EU officials expressed concern that confessions may have been extracted by torture, leaving the door open for a wholesale withdrawal of EU diplomats from the country.

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