by Amy Gibbons, Telegraph
Civil servants joined regime party weeks after protesters were massacred and shortly before war began
Foreign Office staff attended a party at the Iranian embassy to celebrate the Islamic revolution just weeks after the regime massacred thousands of its own people.
As smartly dressed guests, including UK civil servants, gathered at the London event, embassy officials hailed Iran’s “remarkable accomplishments” in spite of “unjust” Western sanctions. Video footage shows attendees standing in silence for a rendition of Iran’s national anthem.
On the same day as the event, Feb 12, the US-based group Human Rights Activists News Agency announced that at least 7,000 people had been killed in Iran, including 219 children. Anti-regime campaigners previously said up to 30,000 protesters may have been murdered.
Reports had reached the West of injured protesters being killed in hospital by the regime’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and people on the streets being shot in the head and neck at close range.
Demonstrators said the drains of Tehran ran crimson with the blood of the dead.
Back in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, Iran’s ambassador to the UK, gave a speech praising the Iranian regime and attacking Western sanctions on Tehran.
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