Pro-Iran protesters march in London - "Supporters of the Iranian government flew the flag of the Ayatollahs in central London on Saturday in protest at American and Israeli air strikes... The demonstrators brandished placards showing a portrait of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader... Others flew the tricolour flag of the Iranian regime, bearing the Islamic emblem... As the pro-Palestine protest drew to a close, one speaker praised the Iranian regime and said: “When it comes to Palestine, the Islamic Republic of Iran has chosen to be be on the right side of history for the past 47 years.”... A number of protesters also carried anti-Semitic placards that appeared to equate Israel with the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. One green placard read “Epstein’s Regime Back Off”, while another appeared to connect both the US and Israel to “Epstein” and “paedos”."
Green Party deputy leader blasts 'inherently racist’ claims he was supporting Iran's Supreme Leader at London rally - "Mothin Ali said Saturday's demonstration was organised by Stop the War Coalition and was not a show of support for the regime in Iran."
You're only guilty of association with everything any single person at a protest says or does when that pushes the left wing agenda
Read Trump's full statement on Iran attacks | PBS News - "Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime. A vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world. For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted Death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries. Among the regime's very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days. In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel. In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole. Many died. Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq. The regime's proxies have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years, as well as U.S. naval and commercial vessels and international shipping lines. It's been mass terror, and we're not going to put up with it any longer. From Lebanon to Yemen and Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts. And it was Iran's proxy, Hamas, that launched the monstrous Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, slaughtering more than 1,000 innocent people, including 46 Americans, while taking 12 of our citizens hostage. It was brutal, something like the world has never seen before. Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terror, and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested. It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon. That is why in Operation Midnight Hammer last June, we obliterated the regime's nuclear program at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. After that attack, we warned them never to resume their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons, and we sought repeatedly to make a deal. We tried. They wanted to do it. They didn't want to do it. Again they wanted to do it. They didn't want to do it. They didn't know what was happening. They just wanted to practice evil. But Iran refused, just as it has for decades and decades. They've rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can't take it anymore. Instead, they attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and to continue developing the long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland. Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they ever had, and actually were armed with nuclear weapons as a means to deliver their message. For these reasons, the United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests. We're going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally again obliterated. We're going to annihilate their navy. We're going to ensure that the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces, and no longer use their IEDs, or roadside bombs as they are sometimes called, to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans. And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. It's a very simple message. They will never have a nuclear weapon."
The TDS squad keep claiming he didn't give any reason for his attack. As usual they're ignorant and blinded by hate
Hamas urges key ally Iran to halt attacks on Gulf states
Damn Zionists! They've taken over Hamas!
Riley Gaines on X - "Three Iranian soccer players granted asylum in Australia are returning back home where they will likely face the death penalty. Since their stance against the Iranian Regime, family members have been detained and gone missing. Pray for these women."
Time to blame the US and Israel!
Jeremy Bowen has given the BBC’s game away - "From his lofty perch as the BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen has unleashed a thunderbolt aimed at Donald Trump. In plain language, Bowen has called-out the US president as a liar... it’s worth remembering Bowen has been in this kind of situation before. In April 2023 a missile fell on the Al-Ahi hospital in Gaza; the death toll was in excess of 400 and Jeremy Bowen blamed the attack on Israel; however subsequent investigations strongly suggested it was a Hamas rocket. The Israeli government said that Bowen and the BBC were guilty of a ‘blood-libel’; within a few days the BBC climbed down and acknowledged a mistake but Mr Bowen was not especially contrite: “O yeah, well I got that wrong.” he said. “I don’t feel particularly bad about that. I don’t regret one thing in my reporting because I think I was measured throughout; I didn’t race to judgment.” With that blunder in mind one might expect Bowen now to be more circumspect. Perhaps further evidence will change the picture. If so it will be too late for the BBC to retract; Bowen has already labelled Trump a liar. Does it matter? Is it the BBC’s job to make that allegation? The traditional BBC approach was to carefully assemble the evidence and allow the audience to make up its own mind; making forthright judgments was avoided for two reasons. Firstly you might get them wrong and secondly if you do speak plainly you inevitably enter the political debate as a partisan. The role Bowen occupies used to be done by John Simpson – I cannot believe he would have been so forthright. And that would have been true of a whole previous generation of BBC correspondents who were taught never to editorialise. But Bowen was given the prime 8.10am spot on Today to do exactly that. The problem for Mr Bowen and the BBC is that every instance like this reinforces the view that the BBC has abandoned impartiality in favour of opinion-mongering. Jeremy Bowen has been called out many times by supporters of Israel for his perceived bias in favour of the Palestinians. In his long diatribe Bowen also accused the US of having gone to war “…without a coherent strategy under a president who, the evidence suggests, makes it up as he goes along.” Later, after he had said his piece, Bowen was asked about it and answered: “…it’s our job, if he comes up with something that’s not just an exaggeration but a barefaced lie to say that. It was actually rather liberating.” And he went on “…tons of people” got in touch to say “Well done Jeremy!” He has certainly expanded his fan club by saying what he did; by the same token he will also have reinforced the view of those of us who feel he too often allows his “revealed preferences” to show."
BMA fails to condemn Iranian attacks on Israeli hospitals - "“I am very surprised that the BMA have only commented about hospitals in Iran while making no mention of the hospitals under attack by Iranian missiles in the UAE and other Gulf states as well as in Israel.”... This is not the first time the BMA has chosen to weigh in on international affairs. Some 45 motions – representing 10 per cent of all things discussed – at last year’s conference were related to either Zionism or Gaza, provoking a mass resignation of Jewish doctors from the union."
The Iran war has divided Europe and shattered the Atlantic alliance - "where is the Royal Navy? It came as an unpleasant shock to the British public that there were no British warships on patrol in the Mediterranean, the Gulf, or the Indian Ocean. The only vessel that was available turned out to be the destroyer HMS Dragon, but she only sailed from Portsmouth this week. By the time she arrives at Cyprus, the Iran war may be over. How did it come to this? The UK is, of course, hardly the only European country to have run down its armed forces after the Cold War. But no other nation, not even the United States, has such a proud naval tradition. So it has been humiliating to discover that other navies maintain a higher state of readiness — something we once took for granted. Within living memory, Britannia has gone from ruling the waves to being submerged in shame. Since the time of Nelson, our Navy prided itself on being qualitatively as well as quantitatively superior to its rivals. In 1939, the Royal Navy was still the largest in the world: more than a match for the German and Italian fleets in the Atlantic and Mediterranean respectively, while also contributing to the defeat of Japan in the Pacific. Together with the RAF, the Navy successfully deterred a Nazi invasion in 1940 and made the Allied landings in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France (on D-Day) possible. There was a heavy price to pay. During the Second World War, 278 British warships were lost, including 10 capital ships, three escort carriers, 28 cruisers and 153 destroyers. More than 50,000 officers and men went down with them. Even in 1982, the task force that Margaret Thatcher sent to recapture the Falkland Islands was able to sail within three days. It comprised 127 vessels, of which 43 were warships. Five ships did not return. We had surprised ourselves, but it proved to be the Navy’s swansong. Now when destiny calls we can barely even dispatch a flotilla, let alone a fleet. On paper, the Royal Navy today has some 63 vessels, but these include just 15 significant surface warships (aircraft carriers, destroyers and frigates), plus 10 nuclear submarines, of which only a handful are seaworthy. Not accidentally, this decline in British naval power coincides with a loss of prestige and even of respect, especially across the Atlantic... When it passed on the task of keeping the world’s sea lanes open to the US navy after 1945, the Royal Navy could look back on more than two centuries of using its supremacy to benefit humanity, from suppressing slavery and piracy to defeating despots from Napoleon to Hitler – without always being able to rely on American support in these endeavours. Only since 1949 has the Atlantic alliance become a permanent fixture. Britain’s decline is not limited to naval power. In the past 25 years, our military personnel have collapsed from over 200,000 to below 150,000. Meanwhile, despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the disparity between European and US levels of defence expenditure has only grown. In 2024, the US spent just under $1tn (£750bn) on defence, almost five times as much as Germany, the UK and France combined. In defence expenditure, all three lag far behind the American figure of 3.5pc of GDP, with Poland as the only major EU military power to exceed 4pc. What would it take to force Europe to pay for a serious increase in military capabilities? The political trade-offs necessary to follow the Polish example – cutting welfare, for example – are seen as impossible in Western Europe. Macron failed to persuade the French to accept a modest rise in the pensionable age. He and Merz face threats from parties on both Left and Right who favour deals with Putin on Ukraine and are either sympathetic or indifferent to Iran. What does move the most immovable European electorates, however, is immigration. A hitherto unmentionable peril could easily emerge if the Iran war topples the clerical regime but leads to the kind of anarchy formerly seen in Iraq, Syria and Libya. It is the spectre of mass migration from a fissiparous nation of 92 million people, perhaps bigger than the wave that arrived from Syria a decade ago. Several European countries — notably Germany, Britain, France and Sweden— are already home to the million-strong Iranian diaspora, many of whom are highly educated, well-integrated and secularised. Most of these émigrés support the US and Israel, but this might quickly change if large numbers began to arrive from a potentially chaotic Iran. Some of the new arrivals would inevitably have hardline Islamist views. An unknown percentage would be regime loyalists, affiliated to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) or the paramilitary Basij —well-versed in propaganda, subversion and terror. The fallout from the Iran war could thus have a profoundly destabilising impact on Europe – even more so than the Arab Spring, Isis and Gaza. It is unclear whether Trump and Netanyahu understand this, still less whether this dire prospect particularly concerns them... The present war in Iran has placed the Atlantic alliance under unprecedented strain. Defeating the Islamic Republic and deposing its leadership are desirable, justifiable and long overdue war aims. Many Europeans recognise this, but are nevertheless desperate to stay out of the conflict. Europe’s perennial ingratitude and resentment towards America are facts of life. But Trump has cut off US military aid for Ukraine, leaving Europeans to help Volodymyr Zelensky stave off the Russian threat. He has simultaneously embarked on a new war without consulting his allies or considering the impact on them of a protracted interruption of oil supplies. The defiant message on Thursday of the new Iranian supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, makes it clear that closing the Strait of Hormuz is still seen by the regime as its best survival strategy."
Too bad the British need to pay for benefits, but they can free ride on the Americans to keep sea lanes clear. Time to mobilise that battalion of human rights lawyers to sabotage the US and Israel, ensuring Iran continues to be a threat for decades to come
Too many armchair foreign policy ‘experts’ seem to want Iran to win - "Trump Derangement Syndrome, often with a comorbidity of Israel Derangement Syndrome, plays a major part in many supposed “expert” opinions on the progress of this conflict. Symptoms include a suicidal glee at any sign the war isn’t going well. Intent on contorting Operation Epic Fury into the Iraq war that began more than 20 years ago, many seem desperate for Donald Trump to fail and Iran to succeed. Only these all-knowing academics, journalists and other keyboard warriors have absorbed the lessons of Iraq while Pentagon planners and battlefield commanders, they think, remain blissfully ignorant. A defeatist outlook also results from a track record of predicting that the Tehran regime cannot be defeated and jihadists will have to be accommodated rather than vanquished. “I told you so” is the refrain when those ayatollahs that are still alive open up on a few tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and fire rockets and drones at their regional neighbours as oil prices spiral and American troops take casualties. The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen could not restrain his schadenfreude at reports that a US missile had tragically hit a school in Tehran. All of this was bad and all eminently predictable, but not only by the armchair generals. All, and much worse, was factored in by political leaders and war planners in Washington and Jerusalem. It would be nice to be able to deal with the depredations of despotic regimes without breaking any eggs, but that is not possible outside of Hollywood. Nor is it pleasant to say that the end result is worth the pain when human life is lost and the cost of living spirals. But unfortunately that’s what it takes. And the Iranian regime’s growing aggression certainly had to be faced head-on. The stars were aligned with an American president and an Israeli prime minister sufficiently courageous to seize the moment against a recently weakened Iran. Headlines like “a war without a strategy” simply twist reality to fit the straitjacket eagerly donned by the submissive. To think that a war leader should publish his plans for all to read while battles are being fought betrays both arrogance and an ignorance of conflict. We are rightly not privy to Trump’s exact strategy but his goals were spelt out clearly from the beginning: to terminate Iran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles programmes, including the development of ICBMs that could hit Europe and the US. He also set out to end Tehran’s worldwide terrorist proxy war and deny their capability to close the Strait of Hormuz. These objectives are all being met in what has so far been a spectacularly successful campaign by the world’s two leading military powers working in a partnership unprecedented since the Second World War... Politically, Trump’s strategy has succeeded in the total isolation of Tehran, never achieved before, as evidenced by this week’s UN Security Council vote condemning Iranian aggression by 13-0. Even Russia and China felt unable to stand by their ally and abstained. Many commentators have wrongly claimed that Trump’s objective was regime change. In reality he has suggested only that it would be a welcome consequence of military action... Providing Trump and Netanyahu press on until all objectives are achieved, even if regime change does not immediately result, the region and the world will be safer after the conclusion of this war, which really began all the way back in 1979. Until now the terrorist regime had been permitted to gain in strength and danger while Western leaders didn’t do much more than wring their hands and look away. Or in the case of Barack Obama, actually encourage and even help fund their depredations. Beyond crippling Iran’s military capability, this conflict should also neutralise a key element of China’s strategy of using Tehran to tie down US military assets in the Middle East in the event of conflict in the Pacific, as well as controlling energy supplies via the Strait of Hormuz. America and Israel have also shown they can suppress Russian and Chinese-supplied air defences with ease, which is good news for all of Nato. This campaign has already achieved a huge amount at relatively limited cost, with even more to come"
Trump's plan makes perfect sense, and it's working - "There’s a strong misconception in Europe that President Donald Trump prefers dictators and authoritarian powers over democratic allies. The fact is that he has just taken out a major Chinese ally (Venezuela), is in the process of taking out another (Iran), and is threatening to take out a third (Cuba). As we think about the problem set that confronted the United States when he came into office, we see that he inherited a dwindling heavy-industry sector and a rigid US ideology about offering the world free markets, despite extremely unfavourable terms (US tariffs on EU cars were 2 per cent while EU tariffs on US autos were 11 per cent). He also inherited a rising rival in China, which seemed to be eating US manufacturing share every year while gaining dominance in global shipping and energy markets. But unlike so many previous American presidents, Trump looks at these problems differently. He sees different problems – inherited from his years as a businessman – and he responds differently. In The Art of the Deal, he advocates boldness against one’s adversaries, recommends aggression towards perceived unfair treatment and promotes maximum flexibility by pursuing multiple “deals” at once. He is a New York real estate mogul, perfectly attuned to a competitive system and thinks of the international rules-based system as red tape and regulation put in place to hold him down... Everyone is constantly guessing, and he is literally taking his opponents to pieces... If China is building an alternate anti-Western coalition which also happens to control huge swathes of the international oil supply, take them out. But don’t talk about taking them out in some grand-strategy way because that tips your opponent off to what you’re doing."
Charity behind pro-Iran ‘hate march’ received £450k taxpayer funding - "A charity which funds the group behind the banned pro-Iran “hate march” has received at least £450,000 in taxpayer-funded donations, The Telegraph can reveal. The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) Trust has been recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid, which means it can claim an extra 25p from the Government for every £1 it receives in donations. Accounts submitted by the trust to the Charity Commission show that it has claimed £458,500 in Gift Aid since 2020. It is under investigation by the watchdog for funding an event where “inflammatory” statements were apparently made. The group, whose spokesman defended Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the late supreme leader of Iran, as a “man of principle”, organised what MPs and peers described as a “hate march” before it was banned this week by Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary... There have been arrests and clashes with the police at previous marches, while the Israeli flag has been burnt, and before Hezbollah’s proscription in 2019, the terror group’s flag was waved."
Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch on X - "BREAKING: Supporters of the Islamic regime of Iran who have recently arrived in Canada seeking protection from the Canadian government are now beginning to attack and threaten members of the Iranian diaspora living there. This Iranian pizza shop owner was threatened with death by three supporters of the Islamic regime of Iran because he had posters and pictures of Reza Pahlavi, leader of Iran’s opposition, on the wall of his shop. #RezaPahlavi"
Attacks on Britain demand a response - "British forces have again come under attack from Iran, and again the Government’s response has amounted to a complacent shrug of the shoulders. Senior officers have revealed that an Iranian drone swarm hit a UK military base in Erbil, Iraq, on Wednesday night. Mercifully, no British soldiers were killed or injured. But that hardly lessens the seriousness of Tehran’s act of aggression or how dangerous it is to let the ayatollahs take free hits at Britain’s servicemen and women... What is Iran learning from this? Or Russia and China for that matter, especially given that the Kremlin is thought to have had a hand in developing Tehran’s tactics? The dismal irony of the Government’s purely “defensive” approach to the war is that it may be making it harder to defend Britain and its interests, because hostile forces will be more likely to believe that they can get away with flagrant acts of aggression. Donald Trump attracted controversy on Sunday for saying higher oil prices were a “very small price to pay” for his military accomplishments in Iran. He may well be right: it is particularly bizarre that some of the same people who understood that it was important to stand up to Russia in Ukraine, even if that meant paying more for energy, are unwilling to apply this principle to Iran, a regime every bit as malign as Vladimir Putin’s. Whether you agree with Mr Trump or not, he cannot be accused of failing to grapple with the hard choices presented by war. He has taken a gamble on attacking Iran, judging that the risks are worth the reward of massively degrading the longer-term threat presented by Tehran. Sir Keir Starmer, by contrast, appears to believe he need make no hard choices at all. He pretends that he can keep Britain out of this war and face no consequences for doing so. He is being proved appallingly wrong and, if Erbil is any guide, the price of his inaction is growing higher by the day."
Doing anything other than sending a strongly worded letter would violate international law, so nothing is going to be done and Iran must be allowed to continue attacking everyone
Alan Mendoza on X - "For years, we were told by successive governments that we can’t proscribe the IRGC as it would mean “we can’t talk to the regime”. Now we discover that British officials partied with that same regime weeks after it butchered thousands of its own people. Shameful doesn’t cover it."
Civil servants celebrated Islamic revolution at Iranian embassy - "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... 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... The attendance of Foreign Office staff at the embassy event, as well as unnamed “representatives” from the UK Parliament, was hailed by Iranian state media. It is not known how many government officials took part."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "Dearborn Henry Ford Community College professor Ali Akbar Shdid: “Trump made a huge mistake by killing our leader Ali Khamenei, we are going to continue on his path, we are going to hold his blood and ideology and teach it to our children.”"
If you talk about a fifth column, you are racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic. If you talk about college indoctrination, you're ignorant, poorly educated and hate learning
Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch on X - "BREAKING: The number of Islamic regime officials and supporters, including Shia clerics, defecting to Canada has increased. This footage recorded at Toronto International Airport shows the arrival of a Shia cleric and his family at the airport. Canada has long been a safe haven for officials of the Islamic regime of Iran. After the fall of the Islamic regime in Iran, many Iranians will return to their homeland, while more regime officials and supporters will come to Canada. #OperationLionsRoar #OperationEpicFury"
Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch on X - "BREAKING: The Shia cleric who was filmed at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, arriving from Iran together with his family, has been identified as Hojjatoleslam Morteza Tayyebi. He has recently obtained Canadian citizenship. Unfortunately, the government of Canada is sheltering these notorious Shia clerics of the Islamic regime, including those who have been directly involved in the killing of Iranian people. #OperationLionsRoar #OperationEpicFury"
