Are the West and Iran Headed to War?

Italy has joined a growing number of EU countries who are censuring Iran after England's embassy was sacked - just how high are the stakes?

The Islamic Republic’s Warning to the West

Yesterday, dozens of young Iranian men surged past police into the British Embassy complex in Tehran, smashing windows, hurling Molotov cocktails, and tossing documents from windows. The British flag was burned and the Iranian flag was raised in its place. The embassy was also looted and a car was burned outside. The riot occurred two days after the Iranian parliament voted to reduce diplomatic relations with Britain, who supported upgraded sanctions against Iran for its continuing pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Iranian Students Storm British Embassy, Burn Flag

Iranian students stormed the British embassy in Iran, tore down the Queen’s picture and burned the British flag

6.8-magnitude quake strikes northern India

New Delhi (CNN) — At in the least 18 people — 13 in India as well as five in Nepal — died when a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim close the border among the two nations Sunday night, local government officials told sister network CNN-IBN.

'Iran likely to close British embassy'

Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:47AM GMT

A British woman pleads with a police officer to release her son after they detained him on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 in north London, the United Kingdom.

Amid widespread unrest in the United Kingdom over the killing of a Black man in London, a senior Iranian lawmaker warns that Iran may shut down the British embassy in Tehran.