At the meeting with the British diplomat, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Director-General for West European Affairs, Aboulqassem Delfi, voiced Tehran’s strong protest against London’s meddling with Iran’s domestic affairs, especially the stances adopted and the remarks made by the British officials over the recent unrests in Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast had earlier warned London against interference in Tehran’s internal affairs, and announced his ministry’s plans for calling the British envoy to Tehran to voice strong protest against the meddling remarks made by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband over the recent unrests in the Iranian capital.

The spokesman also described Miliband’s comments as “hasty and undiplomatic”, and called on London to review its policies towards Iran.

Miliband on Monday hailed what he called as the “great courage” of the Iranian pro-opposition supporters, and criticized Tehran for confronting the rioters, says Iran’s FARS News Agency.

Tehran’s police headquarters announced earlier that eight people were killed in clashes, but meantime underlined that the police forces neither used violence nor fired a single bullet during the Sunday unrests.

The unrests broke out after a number of supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a defeated candidate of the July presidential election in Iran, took to the streets in Tehran on a highly revered religious day commemorated by Shiites in Iran and across the world.

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