One Iranian dissident, Niyak Ghorbani, who has attended every weekly anti-regime protest in London since the uprising began in December, told the JC: “Israel will no longer face its enemies alone not while the people of Iran stand beside it.”
Since the Iranian uprising last month, Jews and Israelis in London have been began marching in solidarity every week. Another Iranian said at a previous rally: “We won’t forget who stood by us at the hardest time.”
The Palestinian Youth Movement had called for others to join them to protest against the “Zionist embassy” and “against US and Zionist terror in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and the entire region”.
Their advert read: “We remain committed to demanding a people's arms embargo and call on all people of conscience to join us in protesting against the imperialist death and destruction in the Middle East.”
At the protest, anti-Zionists wearing keffiyehs and waving Palestinian and Iranian regime flags chanted: “Hands off the Middle East.”
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Pro-regime protesters in London near the Israeli embassy[Missing Credit]
Protesters were also heard shouting: “It is [an] aggression to force our people into war.
“The Zionist entity completely relies on the destruction of our homeland and of our people.”
One protester held a placard which read: “Iran – 3,000 years of civilisation. Israel and the US – 100 years of bloodshed.”
Ghorbani said he felt indebted to Israelis and Jews. “For decades Israel and its people have been among the very few who openly shared the sorrow of the Iranian people in times of tragedy and celebrated their hopes in moments of courage. The wall built by the Islamic terrorist regime has long prevented our two peoples from standing together openly - but those days are passing.
“For centuries, Iranians and Jews have shared a profound history of friendship and mutual protection.
“Tragically, the Islamic terrorist regime that occupies Iran today has spent decades attempting to erase this historic bond through its ideological hostility and propaganda. For years, Iranians have struggled to show the world that this regime does not represent them. At every opportunity, they have tried to make clear that the voice of the Iranian nation is not the voice of the regime.
He went on to say: “After the terrorist atrocities of October 7, when Israel and the Jewish people were openly targeted by violent extremists, Iranians once again sought to demonstrate this historic alliance to the world.
“Many Iranians felt a moral duty to stand beside their Jewish brothers and sisters to show solidarity, friendship, and protection in their moment of pain.”
“Our solidarity is not merely about Israel’s confrontation with the Islamic terrorist regime; it is rooted in a much deeper foundation a historic bond of friendship, respect, and shared humanity between the Iranian and Jewish peoples.”
