Iran calls for calm in crisis with Britain

Iran called on the West to avoid a deepening diplomatic crisis following the storming of the British embassy in Tehran, saying it was an issue between Tehran and London alone, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

"The British government is trying to extend to other European countries the problem between the two of us," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was reported as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency. "But of course we have told European countries not to subject their ties with us to the kind of problems that existed between Iran and Britain." (Reuters)