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Foreign Secretary William Hague has said the British embassy in Iran will re-open for the first time in three years.

The embassy, based in the capital city of Tehran, was closed after hundreds of protesters stormed the building in 2011. Diplomats working at the Iranian embassy in London were subsequently expelled.

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