TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian legislator on Monday asked the country’s officials to seriously review ties with Britain, and said the hostile stances and animosities shown by the British government towards the Iranian nation in recent years have left Tehran no other option but cutting ties with London.

“When a country proves its enmity and hostility towards the Islamic Republic of Iran, there is no reason for continuing high-level political relations with that given state,” Effat Shariati told FNA.

She also reiterated that when a country like Britain is void of tact and diplomacy and does not know diplomatic ways for having relations with the other countries, Iran would not volunteer for establishing or continuing relations with such a state.

Shariati called on the Iranian officials to review their policy towards the British government.

Following Britain’s support for a group of wild demonstrators who disrespected Islamic sanctities and damaged private and public amenities and properties on December 27, 2009 members of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission drafted bill of a law requiring the country’s Foreign Ministry to downgrade or cut relations with Britain.

The British government’s blatant stance and repeated remarks in support of the last year unrests inside Iran and London’s espionage operations and financial and media support for the opposition groups are among the reasons mentioned in the bill for cutting ties with Britain.

The bill received the initial approval in the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission in late December and is waiting for a final approval of all MPs, most likely in coming weeks.

Iran has repeatedly accused the West of stoking post-election unrests, singling out Britain and the US for meddling. Tehran expelled two British diplomats and arrested a number of local staffs of the British embassy in Tehran after documents and evidence substantiated London’s interfering role in stirring post-election riots in Iran.

In one of the court hearing sessions, British embassy’s local staff in Tehran Hossein Rassam, who was charged with spying, admitted cultivating networks of contacts in the opposition movement using a £300,000 budget and confessed that the local staff of the embassy had attended protests against June’s presidential election results along with two British diplomats, named in court as Tom Burn and Paul Blemey, and that he had attended meetings with the defeated opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, alongside Burn.
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