Why Britain’s Activists Ignore Iran’s Brutality
The current Iran war has exposed an uncomfortable truth in Britain. In a country that prides itself on defending freedom, some have taken to the streets waving the flag of a regime that violently suppresses it.
At the end of January, I spotted one of the regular pro-Palestine marches heading through London. But things were different this time. Rather than the usual advocacy for Palestinian rights, people were marching through London’s streets chanting in support of the murderous anti-British Iranian regime, proudly waving Iranian flags and displaying photos of Ayatollah Khamenei with the words, “Be On The Right Side of History” written neatly on the placards. The irony could hardly be starker. After the Iranian regime massacred more than 30,000 protesters, dozens of people in Britain took to the streets, freely exercising their right to protest, to wave Iranian flags and voice support for the very regime that brutally slaughtered its own demonstrators.
Iranians have a diaspora of over 114,000 people in Britain with many Iranians........
