Iranian Embassy in Athens

There are many points along Vasso Papandreou‘s political course at which someone can stand.

Israeli media report that high-ranking officials in their country have pointed to the Quds Force, one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence, is behind the foiled plot to bomb a Jewish restaurant and an attached cultural and religious center in Athens.

The removal on Tuesday of the Psychico police precinct director in the wake of Monday's attack on the Iranian Embassy in Athens by the anarchist group Rouvikonas was widely condemned by unions representing police officers and security guards.

The director is to be transferred to another division as the embassy was one of the buildings that fell under his supervision.

The union of police's special guards criticised a decision to remove the director of a police precinct and a special guard from their positions, in response to an attack on the Iranian Embassy in Athens by members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas in the early hours of Monday.

An attack on the Iranian Embassy in Athens by members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas in the early hours of Monday led on Tuesday to the removal of the director of the Psychico police precinct.

The director was to be transferred to another division as the embassy was one of the buildings that supposedly fell under his supervision.

The Greek Police (ELAS) had the Iranian Embassy in Athens at the top of the list of targets that it believed anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) might take aim at, yet it failed to avert an attack on the embassy by members of the group early on Monday morning, Kathimerini has learned.

The police officer who was on guard duty at the Iranian Embassy in Athens when it was attacked early on Monday by the Rouvikonas anarchist group has been put under investigation for his handling of the incident.

Around 10 self-professed members of the Rouvikonas anarchist group targeted the Iranian Embassy in Athens in the early hours of Monday, throwing paint at the building's facade and smashing the windows on the guard's booth, after instructing the security guard to step away.