Foreign Office Staff Celebrated Islamic Revolution at Iranian Embassy
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. The Telegraph has the story.
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, February 12th, 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.
“For nearly half a century, Iran has faced relentless pressure; from the eight-year imposed war and severe sanctions to acts of sabotage and terrorism,” he said.
“Nevertheless, by relying on domestic capabilities, national cohesion and empowered human resources, it has achieved significant progress.”
A video released by the embassy showed guests mingling with regime officials just a fortnight before the outbreak of war between Iran, and the United States and Israel.
A large banner can be seen adorned with pictures of Ali Khamenei, the former Iranian supreme leader who was later killed by US-Israeli strikes, and Ruhollah Khomeini, his predecessor.
Dame Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, said it was “disgraceful” for officials to celebrate the creation of a regime that had “bathed the streets of cities across Iran in the blood of a generation of freedom fighters”.
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They know who attended, sack them, if they do not then they condone the Iranian regime.
Not that anyone would be surprised.
Disappointing, but not surprising.
They hate this country, but love Islamic dictatorships.
Hopefully they were educated that after the lefties joined the moslems for the glorious revolution of 1979, it only took eight years for every single lefty in the coalition to be arrested, “tried” and executed for crimes against islam.
Take heed.
Not “disappointing”, it is traitorous
Who do our governments, authorities and establishments work for? ——Certainly not UK citizens. Everything they do is geared to the global government agenda and the destruction of the Nation State
The protestors in Iran where knowingly breaking the law and they knew that they were risking capital punishment or something similar. Hence, nobody can legitimately claim that they have been murdered. The government of Iran put down an insurrection. Coincidentally, just like another government did in a place called Tiananmen Square in 1989 but nobody still talks about that.
That we may sympathize with the protestors in Iran doesn’t change the facts that they were knowingly risking their lives and that they remained a too small minority to succeed.
Reminds me of a visit to Beijing me and a friend did in 1996. In Beijing we were mostly accompanied by a “guide” that took us around various tourist oriented places, and he tried to prevent us walking on Tiananmen by keeping us busy elsewhere. 7 years on, they were a bit sensitive about that. The snag was that it was the Chinese equivalent of a bank holiday, and loads of places were closed, so he couldn’t stop us in the end.
Perhaps the contents of this article may explain the dearth of information about Tienanmen in recent years. ohnmenadue.com/post/2023/06/how-psy-ops-warriors-fooled-me-about-tiananmen-square-a-warning/
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2023/06/how-psy-ops-warriors-fooled-me-about-tiananmen-square-a-warning/
That’s a bunch of unbacked assertions originally published by some guy from Hong Kong which already starts with something I haven’t ever heard about before, namely, the description of the supposed actions of the soldiers. That certainly wasn’t in the news at that time, as I very well remember. It’s also not in the Wikipedia about the topic.
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Good reminder – will check it out, thanks
For as long as the UK has diplomatic relationships with Iran, UK officials will … well … have relationships with the Iranian embassy because that’s part of their jobs.
What ex-Muslim: Bosch Fawstin said. The common denominator is Islam. Yes, there’s a spectrum, but they’re all cut from the same cloth and worship the same paedo-prophet ( may piss be upon him ), and I’m sick to the back teeth of this Islamotard freak circus so can we deport the native, white, oikophobe Islam whores, who have fully enabled this gargantuan shitshow from which there’s no escape, too, please and thank you; ”In the name of distinguishing the Islamic enemy from passive Muslims, far too many Western commentators have avoided using the name “Islam” for the enemy’s ideology, and instead have decided to create their very own pet names for the threat we’re facing, terms that are alien to the enemy. Terms such as: Islamic Fundamentalism. Islamic Extremism. Totalitarian Islam. Islamofascism. Islamonazism. Political Islam. Bin Ladenism. Radical Islam. Militant Islam. Islamism. Jihadism. We didn’t use terms such as “Radical Nazism” and “Militant Communism” in the past. “Militant Islam”, Political Islam”, etc., are redundant terms. Our pretending otherwise has proven disastrous. Thousands of American lives, both civilian and military, have been sacrificed because of policies predicated on the myth that “Islam means peace.” We didn’t try to reform Shinto or… Read more »
Several good points in there. Good post. Is that last quote genuine?!?
He posted it just yesterday it would seem;
https://x.com/i/status/2032325329860321409
I read that Saad’s comment, made in 2016, was heavily sarcastic, criticizing what he saw as flawed social/political narrative. Is that your understanding of this quote?
But we are all to be guilty of “Islamophobia” for insulting a religion. —-But Islam isn’t just a religion. It is a Political and legal System as well and if something is Political then we must be free to disagree, criticise and yes INSULT. ——-That is what happens in FREE COUNTRIES.
That’s diplomacy for you. Talking to the opposition doesn’t mean you approve of them in any way, after all.
Well of course they did, saying the quiet part out loud.
My contempt for these people…
The only massacre was by armed insurrectionists funded by Israel, the US and its vassals who also supplied the rioters with weapons.
The 30,000 figure was an off the cuff remark by two over-worked Iranian medics later embellished by opposition supporters and the Western media who all want regime change in Iran and give Trump the excuse to bomb Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the mayhem caused by the terrorist operation in Iran:
— 305 ambulances and buses
— 24 gas stations
— 700 convenience stores
— 300 private homes
— 750 banks
— 414 government buildings
— 749 police stations
— 120 Basij centers
— 200 schools
— 350 mosques
— 15 libraries
— 2 Armenian churches
— 253 bus stations
— 600 ATMs
— 800 private cars
— Total death toll: 3,117
— Civilians and security forces: 2,427
— Terrorists: 690
Iran were defending themselves against a foreign backed coup and are now resisting the regime change attack on their country by imperialist US and genocidal Israel.
Whenever I see an official government/media narrative like this I always think about Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” and question everything.
Casualty figures among Allied military personnel in Operation Epic Fury so far:
American troops killed: 15
American troops wounded: 140
Israeli troops killed: 0
Israeli troops wounded: 14
Hidden Casualties of Operation Epic Fury: Pentagon Admits 140 U.S. Troops Wounded as Iranian Missile and Drone Barrages Expose Vulnerability of American Gulf Bases – Defence Security Asia