Has any foreign embassy ever been entered without permission?
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The best known example is the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981.
The people who entered and took over the US embassy in Tehran were not officially representatives of the Iranian government, but it's clear enough that they had government support; at the very least, the government did nothing (that I know of) to encourage them to leave.
The result was a further weakening of US/Iranian relations, including US sanctions against Iran. It's been argued that it contributed strongly to the defeat of President Carter's reelection campaign in 1980.
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In 2002, Chinese forces briefly entered the Japanese general consulate in China, in the action of catching defectors from North Korea, who had just rushed into the consulate.
There was probably not much thinking during the brief time of the action, I guess. Afterwards, the Chinese officials claimed they were welcome, but the incident provoked a lot of criticism from Japanese and South Korean media.
Here is the official stance of the Japanese government on this incident (in Japanese): http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/china/shinyo/
Source: 瀋陽総領事館北朝鮮人亡命者駆け込み事件
(poor attempt at translation by Google Translate)
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