ATTA KENARE via Getty Images Iranian students demonstrate on Saturday following a tribute for the 176 people who were killed after Iran accidentally shot down a passenger airline on Wednesday. Iranian officials arrested and briefly detained Robert Macaire, the British ambassador to Iran, according to the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary. Macaire was arrested amid a protest outside of a university in Tehran and detained for more than an hour. “The arrest of our Ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law,” British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement Saturday. The U.S. State Department also denounced the arrest and called on the Iranian regime to formally apologize in its own statement Saturday.

Source: Huffington Post January 11, 2020 23:26 UTC