🔴 BBC staff are up in arms after the Corporation ‘did a deal’ with the Iranian regime which allowed its journalists to cover the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but banned them from broadcasting to people inside the country.
Read my investigation here 👇🏼
https://t.co/KPoq9sRS5g
This morning, I met with @EmilyThornberry Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, and other members of the Committee to discuss the situation inside Iran, the Islamic Republic’s repression of the Iranian people, and the urgent need to place the people of Iran at the centre of UK policy.
I made clear that dealing with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 Iranians in January is not only morally wrong, but strategically misguided.
Any agreement that preserves this regime or its remnants will fail. The Iranian people will not accept it.
With or without international support, the people of Iran will overthrow this regime. Freedom will come to Iran.
The islamic regime is selling murdered Iranian women for parts.
Armenia has confiscated massive amounts of undeclared Iranian natural women's hair which was brought across the border.
This illegal trend has been skyrocketing since, wait for it, January.
Almost all the morgue victims from the massacre were men, and not women. We are beginning to learn what actually happened to the girls who were massacred back then.
More than 2,000 British Iranians and their allies have called on the UK government to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation, a regime force responsible for decades of terror, repression, and threats beyond Iran’s borders.
The time for symbolic statements is over. The UK must take decisive action and stand with the Iranian people and a democratic future for Iran.
Read the full official letter to the Prime Minister via the link in my bio.
@Keir_Starmer
#ProscribetheIRGC #FreeIran #RezaPahlavi #DemocraticTransitionInIran
To those playing politics with Iranian lives, watch Obama’s speech from 2012 when he by-passed Congress and helped bring about regime change in Libya. The situation in Iran right now - as we enter day 65 of a regime enforced internet blackout - is indisputably worse.
"This is the war you should be speaking of: the Islamic Republic’s war on my compatriots. That war that rages on everyday, far from the headlines of your Western newspapers, and the minds of your television producers."
Prince Reza Pahlavi
Swedish Parliament, April 13, 2026
100 days have passed. But these heroes will live on in history.
There is no turning back.
The 40,000 martyrs of January 8th and 9th gave their lives so both Iran and the world can be free.
These young Iranians are on death row and set to be executed by hanging in the near future, for rising up in January.
The regime is speeding up this process while the ceasefire is taking place. As it turns out, a "peace deal" with the IRGC means mass slaughter for our people.
https://t.co/aWdZAXVWxC
Teenagers in jail and at risk of death. Iranians didn't die for a few kilos of uranium to be handed over. Help us to help ourselves in freeing our home.
No deal in Islamabad.
@POTUS@JDVance
🚨 The Islamic Republic has killed entire families.
A mother and her three sons, the youngest just 8 years old, buried together in a single grave in Sabzevar cemetery.
An entire family was killed in a single day, on January 9, for protesting for a better Iran.
The Islamic Republic is a familicidal and genocidal regime.
This was Iran during "peacetime" by the way. The image on the left is the street. The image on the right is a hospital floor.
A ceasefire for you does not mean ceasefire for the people trapped with the mullahs and the IRGC.
https://t.co/BqvbAW2uh8
Mass murder, executions, torture, and gang rape. How can the US shake hands with a barbaric murderous regime. Changing jailers and rapists is NOT regime change. Mr. President! Support the Iranian people and their stance for freedom
@POTUS@JDVance
Mr President! Any deal that will not protect the Iranian civilians or aid their fight for freedom is a betrayal of humanity. The regime will slaughter our children.
@POTUS@JDVance
Her name is Bita Hemmati.
She walked into the streets of Tehran during the January protests, and for that, the Islamic Republic is going to hang her.
She, along with three other women, are marked to be the first female protesters executed in response to this uprising.
But the execution isn't the true horror of this story.
You need to look directly at the absolute, bottomless depravity of the enemy we are fighting.
According to the twisted theology of these clerics, a virgin is guaranteed entry to heaven. So, before they drag her to the gallows, they will rape her. This is a calculated, systematic weapon of their prisons. They will violate her in the dark just to ensure they destroy her afterlife as well as her life on earth.
They don’t just want to snap her neck. They want to desecrate her soul.
This is the reality of the regime. This is what the international community treats as a legitimate government. It is not a government. It is a cartel of rapists who weaponize a bastardized religion to justify the violation and slaughter of our daughters.
#IranMassacre
🚨 An 18-year-old Iranian girl has been sentenced to death and may be raped before execution.
The revolutionary court has sentenced Niloufar Esfahani to death by hanging for protesting after her arrest alongside her mother.
While executing someone for protesting and demanding basic rights is already cruel, Niloufar is reportedly a virgin, adding a deeply disturbing dimension to her case.
Activists and historical accounts document that female prisoners have been subjected to sexual violence before execution, based on the regime's long-standing belief that virgins would otherwise go to heaven.
This practice has been referenced in accounts from the 1980s. In his memoirs, Ayatollah Montazeri described how directives around female prisoners were misused, including forced temporary “marriages” before execution.
Reports such as Justice for Iran’s Crime and Impunity also cite survivor testimonies alleging systematic sexual abuse.
This sick, gendered, and inhumane practice has never disappeared throughout the Islamic Republic’s 47-year rule.
Appeasing the regime that massacred 40,000 protesters won’t bring peace. It will only delay the next crisis.
It is time for a clean break. Instead of legitimizing their oppressors, the West should stand with the people of Iran.
My op-ed in @thetimes: https://t.co/S7owB7buIH