Azerbaijan, Baku, August 12 /Trend/
Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned British charge d'affaires and informed him about "Iran's deep concerns about the violent behavior of UK government towards the protestors", Mehr News Agency reported.
Iran asked UK to recognize and to pay attention to "protestors' real demands".
On August 9, Iran's Parliament claimed that it would seriously pursue the issue of shutting down the UK embassy in Tehran in case the violent crackdown on British citizens continued.
The unrest in the UK began on August 6 in the north London suburb of Tottenham, after a few hundred people gathered outside a police station to protest against 29-year-old Mark Daggan's fatal shooting and killing.
However, violent protests erupted in major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol in Britain's worst rioting since the 1980s. Protest outbreaks were also reported in Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Reading, and Oxford.
Turmoil is now threatening to sweep across Britain as the mayhem and looting has also spread to the central city of Birmingham, the western city of Bristol, the northwestern city of Liverpool, and south London neighborhood of Brixton.
British Police said they have arrested more than 560 people as the unrest entered a fourth night.
This week, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast also called on the British police to exercise restraint against protesters.
Mehmanparast asked the British government to start dialogue with the protesters and to listen to their demands in order to calm the situation down.
He also asked independent human rights organizations to investigate the killing in order to protect the civil rights and civil liberties.