by Andrew Jehring, Daily Mail
Tehran’s Embassy in London has urged UK residents willing to die for the regime to sign up to an official ‘martyrdom’ program sparking national security concerns.
Consulate officials posted a message encouraging ‘proud Iranian compatriots residing in Britain’ to register for its ‘Jan Fada’ – or ‘sacrificing life’ – program.
It asked for ‘all brave and noble children of Iran‘ with a ‘desire for the people’s defence of the land of Iran’ to come forward in a ‘display of solidarity, loyalty, and national zeal’.
Chillingly, the post in Farsi on the embassy’s official Telegram channel read: ‘Let us all, to a man, give our bodies to be slain; For it is better than giving our country to the enemy.’
The regime launched the Jan Fada campaign last month and a spokesman for the embassy claimed it ‘does not promote any form of hostility’.
But Australian police are investigating a similar recruitment drive from the Canberra Embassy while Iranian security experts warned the Mail this is a ‘significant’ security threat.
Scotland Yard has been contacted for comment as members of the diaspora called for action to be taken.
Roger Macmillan, former director of security at Iran International, a UK-based dissident news channel, said: ‘It is horrific the fact that this is on UK soil.
‘This is an attempt at radicalisation online of people who could be persuaded by the regime to commit acts in support of the Islamic Republic in the UK.