Protesters trash police post at French embassy in Tehran

TEHRAN: A small group of protesters, most of them women, on Tuesday destroyed a Iranian police post protecting the French embassy in Tehran and threw stones at visitors to the mission before being arrested, a diplomat inside told.

The violent demonstration lasted 90 minutes and involved around 15 people, the French diplomat said.

"There was no damage to the embassy itself," though the visitors -- all of them Iranians applying for French visas -- had to take refuge inside, he said.