How the Iranian threat has spread inside the UK
By Melanie Philips, Substack.
At what point will the British government be forced to agree that the Islamic revolutionary regime of Iran presents a clear and present danger such that the regime must be actively contained and constrained?
The evidence for this has been there for all with eyes to see ever since the regime came to power in 1979. But it is now as blindingly obvious as is the corresponding perversity of both the British and American governments by refusing to act appropriately in response to this menace.
In recent weeks, the Jewish Chronicle (for which I write a monthly opinion column) has been uncovering more and more evidence of the threat posed by Iran to British citizens on British soil.
In the current issue of the JC, noted Iran-watcher Kasra Aarabi and the JC’s politics and investigations editor David Rose have revealed that, over the past three years, the Islamic Student Association of Britain, which has branches on university campuses in Bradford, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Cambridge, has presented a series of online talks by at least eight commanders of Iran’s key force of state repression and terrorism, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
These speakers included three who are on the UK sanctions list for their personal involvement in gross human rights abuses. One of these is closely connected to the IRGC’s Intelligence Organisation which is openly seeking to conduct terrorist attacks against Jews around the world.
These talks to students, which have been watched many thousands of times, have featured bloodcurdling calls to join the coming “apocalyptic war” against non-Muslims, Holocaust denial as well as other forms of flagrant antisemitism.
One of these speakers, Saeed Ghasemi, denied the Holocaust, bragged about training al-Qaeda terrorists and urged his student audience to join “the beautiful list of soldiers” who would fight and kill Jews in a coming apocalyptic war. Another IRGC speaker, Hossein Yekta, told students to view themselves as “holy warriors” and promised that “the era of the Jews” would soon be at an end.
All this to incite students at British universities to join a terrorist war against Britain. Worse still is the nature of these men.
Ghasemi, writes Aarabi, is known as one of the most violent and extremist commanders of the IRGC’s notorious “Plainclothes Unit” which detains, tortures and executes Iranian civilians involved in anti-regime protests. Yekta, he says, is nothing short of a youth indoctrinator and recruiter for the IRGC.
A third speaker was Ali Fazli. During Iran’s 2009 anti-regime protests, Fazli was a senior commander of the IRGC’s Sarallah HQ, the key national-security outfit during times of unrest. He was personally responsible for overseeing all the police and security crackdowns on civilians during that uprising, resulting in the murder of hundreds of Iranian civilians as well as detaining and torturing thousands of others.
Over the course of recent weeks, the JC has published a series of important scoops about Iranian regime activity in Britain which is going on under the noses of the authorities. In articles here and here, Rose and Felix Pope exposed an extensive level of co-operation between British and Iranian universities on research that has possible military applications, including swarming drone technology, jet engines and armour plating. More than a dozen British universities are involved including Cambridge, Imperial College, Glasgow, Edinburgh, King’s College London, Northumbria and Liverpool. At least one of these projects is directly funded by the Iranian regime.
As the Sunday Times reported two days ago, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, now believes that the IRGC is the biggest threat to Britain’s national security. Braverman is said to be concerned by intelligence reports that Iranian spies are attempting to recruit members of organised crime gangs to target regime opponents.
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