Protester scales Iranian Embassy in London, tears down regime flag, hoists pre-revolution symbol

An anti-regime protester scaled the balcony of Iran’s Embassy in London Friday and tore down the Islamic Republic’s flag, replacing it with Iran’s pre-1979 “Lion and Sun” emblem, video shows.The demonstrator climbed the front of the embassy building in Kensington before ripping down the regime’s flag and hoisting the historic symbol associated with Iran’s monarchy prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a large crowd of anti-regime protesters cheered.The Metropolitan Police said officers responded and made two arrests — one for aggravated trespass and assault on an emergency worker and another for aggravated trespass. Police said they are also seeking another individual for trespassing. It was not immediately clear whether the protester who tore down the flag was among those arrested.Fox News Digital reached out to Iran’s Embassy in London for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.EXILED IRANIAN PRINCE SAYS REGIME ‘VERY CLOSE TO COLLAPSING’ AMID NATIONWIDE UNRESTThe embassy protest comes as Iran faces its most significant wave of unrest in years. President Trump has warned the regime that the U.S. will protect protesters if necessary.Potkin Azarmehr, a British-Iranian journalist, said the unrest stands in sharp contrast to Iran’s 2009 Green Movement, when protesters openly questioned whether the Obama administration supported them.”What a contrast to Obama’s time, when protesters in Iran were chanting, ‘Obama, are you with us or with them?’” Azarmehr told Fox News Digital.”Any international support, whether at the grassroots or government level, is encouraging.”He said global attention matters to protesters on…

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