A pick-up truck has smashed into the wall of the British embassy compound
in Iran, according to reports from Iran's student news agency, ISNA.
The incident comes three days after the embassy was besieged by a crowd of
anti-war protesters.
ISNA says investigations are beginning into the incident in which the
driver of the pick-up died.
The vehicle hit the compound wall close to the embassy's main gates about
10:15pm local time and burst into flames, it said.
There were no reports of any casualties among embassy staff, many of whom
live within the compound in central Tehran.
A British diplomat confirmed the details of the ISNA report.
On Friday, more than a dozen windows on the embassy's main office building
were smashed by stone throwers as a crowd of about 300 anti-war protesters
chanted slogans against the US-led war in neighbouring Iraq, and called for
the British embassy to be closed down.
President Bush said today the war is not about timetables. It's about
winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.
Here's kind of a weird story. Way back in 1980, Saddam Hussein was given a
key to the city of Detroit. Did you know that? A dignitary from Detroit
traveled to Iraq and as a goodwill gesture he gave Saddam Hussein the key
to the city. Of course, Saddam never actually went to Detroit. Way too
dangerous. He wouldn't do that.
Today President Bush said we would stay in Iraq for as long as it takes.
It's the same policy he had in high school.
In Washington, paramedics rescued a 57-year-old man who got his manhood
stuck in a vacuum cleaner. He told the authorities his relationship with
the vacuum was purely physical. He didn't want any attachments.
