For years, Britain has defended freedom of speech. Having been brought up in a country, Iran, where my father was imprisoned for criticising a policy of the government, I have always supported this invaluable principle. However, we have defended it by not allowing a space for the growth or expression of certain fascist ideologies that threaten that very principle. Rightly so. Nazi supporters, for example, have never been allowed to have rallies in London.

When it comes to the Islamic Republic of Iran we seem to be complacent

When it comes to the Islamic Republic of Iran we seem to be complacent

Yet when it comes to the Islamic Republic of Iran we seem to be complacent. On the streets of London on Wednesday, a group of Iranians who were supporting the Islamic regime chanted ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’. They carried a picture of Sayyid Ali Khamenei, a man who ordered the massacre of tens of thousands of Iranians.

This group, albeit small in comparison with the number of protestors who were........

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