Ambassador Geoffrey Adams was summoned by the director of the Foreign Ministry’s Western European Affairs Ibrahim Rahim-Pour to receive an official complaint by the Islamic Republic over recent remarks by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in which he described Iran as a “strategic threat”.
Rahim-Pour told Adams to convey Tehran’s message to London that the British government “learn a lesson” from the mistakes of its predecessors.
Last week, Blair accused Iran of “openly supporting terrorism in Iraq to stop a fledgling democratic process”.
In a speech to business leaders in Dubai during a tour of the Middle East, Blair said Tehran was at the heart of a “monumental struggle” between the forces of moderation and extremism around the world.
Adams was the Principal Private Secretary to British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw from 2003 to 2005.
