denouncing the vile British and demanding that relations with the treacherous English be severed once and for all. Or, at the very least, they say British Ambassador Simon Gass must be banished to the fringes of the universe. His crime was a statement posted on the embassy website that is critical of Iranian human rights conduct. Majlis deputies are running around screaming for Gass’s head. A bill that would sever relations is being dusted off. (Now-ousted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki spent months burying the bill.) The Brit Bashers have also mounted a loud demo outside the British embassy charging that Britain was behind the recent assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. (The government has ceased blaming Britain for that and focused on Israel and the United States.)
