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Bobby Sands Street

I only became aware of this fantastic fact recently.

After the death of Bobby Sands MP. in 1981 the authorities in Iran named a street after Bobby in their capital, Tehran. The greatest fact of all is that it's the street where the British Embassy was then, and is now situated.

Now the British government has renewed diplomatic relations with Iran they are doing their best to get them to change the name of this street.

A campaign has begun to encourage the Iranian authorities not to do this.

I will get the info. required, I'm hoping that all of us here can do our best to support this cause by sending letters and e-mails.

Daithi

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Re maintaining Bobby Sands Street in Teheran:

HERE ARE SOME ADDRESSES:

IRAN: GOVERNMENT ADDRESSES
Leader of the Islamic Republic
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed 'Ali Khameni
The Presidency
Palestine Avenue
Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran

President
His Excellency Hojjatoleslam Sayed Mohammad Khatami
The Presidency
Palestine Avenue
Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran
www.president.ir
[email protected]

Head of Judiciary
His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi
Head of the Judiciary
Ministry of Justice
Ministry BLDG, Panzdah-Khordad Square,
Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: +98 21 879 6671 or +98 21 640 4018/4019 (please mark "care of Director of International Affairs)
Email: [email protected] (Public Relations Director)

Minister of Foreign Affairs
His Excellency Kamal Kharrazi
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Sheikh Abdolmajid Keshk-e Mesri Av
Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran.
Fax: +98 21 390 1999 or +98 21 311 3149 (please mark "care of the Human Rights Department, Foreign Ministry")
www.mfa.gov.ir

Iranian Embassy in London
16 Prince's Gate, London SW7 1PT.
Tel: 020 7225 3000 Fax: (020) 7589 4440

REPUBLIC OF IRLAND(DUBLIN)

THE TITLE OF DIPLOAMTIC OFFICE:EMBASSY
THE HEAD ODF DIPLOAMTIC OFFICE :MR.HOSEIN MIRFAKHAR(AMBASSADOR)
THE ESTABLISHMENT DATE OF DIPLOAMTIC OFFICE :1983
ADDRESS :72,MOUNT MERRION AVE.BLACKROCK,CO.
DUBLIN IRLAND

COUNTRY ARIA COD :00353 1
TEL :1885881-2880252-2882967-08858052
FAX :2834246
EMAIL :[email protected]



UNITED ESTATE OF AMERICA(WASHINGTON)

THE TITLE OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICE:INTERESTS SECTION
THE HEAD OF DIPLOAMTIC OFFICE :MR.FARIBORZ JAHANSOOZAN(PRINCIPAL OF OFFICE )
THE ESTABLISHMENT DATE OF DIPLOATIC OFFICE:1876
ADDRESS :EMBASSY OF THE ISLAMIC OF PAKISTAN
2209 WISCONSIN AVE.N.W.WASH.D.C.20007 U.S.A

COUNTRY AREA COD :001 202
TEL :9654990-9654991-9654993-9654994
FAX :3377984
HOME PAGE :WWW.DAFTAR.ORG
EMAIL :[email protected]



CANADA (OTTAWA)

TITLE OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICE : EMBASSY
HEAD OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICE
MR.SEYED MOUHAMMAD ALI MOOSAVI (AMBASSADOR) d
DATE OF ESTABLISHMENT: 1955

ADDRESS :245 METCALFE ST.OTTAWA ONTARIO.K2P 2K2 CANADA
COUNTRY AREA CODE :001 613
TEL :2354726-2334726
CONSULAR TEL :2334726
FAX :2335712



AUSTRALIA (CANBERRA)

TITLE OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICE : EMBASSY
HEAD OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICE
MR.GHOLAMALI KHOSHROO (AMBASSADOR) d
DATE OF ESTABLISHMENT: 1952

ADDRESS :25 COLOGOA ST.O'MALLEY ACT 2606 CANBERRA AUSTRALIA
P.O BOX :3219

COUNTRY AREA CODE :00612
TEL :62902168-62902427
AFTER HOURS TEL :RES.62952676
COUNSULAR TEL :62902423-62902421-FAX62902825
FAX :62902431
EMAIL :[email protected]


TO REACH OTHER IRANIAN EMBASSIES AROUND THE WORLD:

http://www.mfa.gov.ir/other-sites/m...on-english.html

Also you can sign the Petition

Did you all sign the petition ?

Over 1100 have so far.

I did and got friends and family to sign it

Me and lots of me friends in Russia and Ukrain + O'Briens' Clan had signed...

Nice work Daithi.

I never realised the Iranian government sent a representative to Bobby Sands' funeral.

The respect that Bobby Sands commanded from people the world over is something to be proud of. I hope the Iranian governement do the right thing and keep this tribute to a great freedom fighter and inspiration to many around the world.

Unfortunately Iran has changed similar street names before to improve relations with other states. The Iranians are eager to prove to Britain and the US that they are combating "terrorism". I hope they don't see the changing of Bobby Sands Street, a man the British and US governments believe was a terrorist, as being a part of the so-called "war against terrorism".

Here's the article about how the Iranians changed a street name to improve relations with Egypt:

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Iran and Egypt restoring ties

06-01-2004

By Parisa Hafezi

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran and Egypt have agreed to restore diplomatic relations severed 25 years ago, Iran's Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi has told Reuters.

"The two countries have decided to restore ties. It's a definite move and right now they are making the preparations," Abtahi said.

"By working together Iran and Egypt can become an influential power in world issues," he added.

An Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said he could not confirm reports that Egypt and Iran had agreed to restore ties.

"I advise you to stay tuned," said another Egyptian official, who asked not to be identified.

Abtahi's comments followed the decision of Tuesday by Tehran City Council to rename a street that had honoured the assassin of Egypt's late president Anwar Sadat, thus removing a major obstacle to the restoration of ties between the two countries.

The official IRNA news agency said the council had changed Khaled Islambouli street to Intifada street, after the Palestinian uprising, at the request of Iran's Foreign Ministry.

Iran and Egypt have expressed a desire in recent weeks to patch up their differences. Cairo had demanded Iran rename the street before it would contemplate restoring relations.

"This is a step in accordance with (Iran's) detente policy and trust-building with all countries, especially Islamic countries," IRNA quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi as saying.

WILL HELP PALESTINIANS, IRAN SAYS

"For the same reasons that relations with Egypt were cut they should now be restored because it will help the Palestinians and they themselves (the Palestinians) want it," Asefi said.

Iran broke ties with Egypt shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution for striking the Camp David peace deal with Israel and hosting Iran's exiled shah, who died in Cairo in 1980 and remains buried there.

Islambouli, an Islamic radical who opposed the Israeli-Egyptian peace deal, shot Sadat in 1981. He was later executed.

"Changing the name of Khaled Islambouli street was not a condition for restoring ties with Egypt," Asefi said. "But because any name is symbolic it was necessary for us to respect some (Egyptian) concerns."

By early afternoon, the street sign had not been changed and a huge mural of Islambouli on the side of a building overlooked the street. A caption reads: "In honour of Lieutenant Islambouli, the Revolutionary Execution Agent of Sadat".

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met on the sidelines of a conference in Geneva last month -- the first such meeting for more than two decades.

The renaming of the street by Khatami's reformist government faced some opposition from religious hardliners in Iran.

The hardline Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper, in an editorial on Tuesday, referred to Islambouli as a "martyr" and said changing the name of the street that honoured him was "an insult to Islamic and revolutionary values and causes".

Iran has used street names to score diplomatic points against several other countries.

One street adjacent to the British Embassy in Tehran, for example, is called Bobby Sands street after the Irish Republican Army prisoner who died on hunger strike in Belfast in 1981.

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