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the iranian expat community is calling for the uk government to designate the irgc uk s minister of state for middle east north africa south asia and the un lord ahmad of wimbledon and tom tugendhat both met with vahid beheshti while he was on the hunger strike but although they sympathised with him they failed to tell him what the foreign office s justification was neither of them disagreed with anything i was saying they both nodded and said they agreed with me but i still didn t get an explanation from them as to why the uk government is not putting the irgc on the terror list beheshti told me after meeting with lord ahmad beheshti received the support of many uk parliamentarians who frequently visited him while he was staging his hunger strike more than 100 uk mps signed a letter addressed to the uk prime minister rishi sunak backing beheshti s plea for the irgc to be prescribed as a terror organisation in the letter signatories wrote the government s decision to proscribe the hamas and hezbollah terror groups were important steps in combating the threat of extremism and terrorism but the uk can ill afford to stop there the irgc is after all the primary financier supplier and trainer of these dangerous groups it is incumbent upon the government to go after the parent organisation four of the mps who had signed the letter personally came to see vahid beheshti outside the foreign office building in king charles street next to westminster before handing the letter to rishi sunak the mps were representatives from all uk parties labour mp steve mccabe who said he supported vahid beheshti s campaign stated the government has been far too soft for far too long and must finally listen to sense and proscribe tehran s terror army once and for all the uk foreign office s refusal to designate the irgc along with not providing a justification for its policy prompted various rumours lord polak a conservative party peer in britain s house of lords suggested the foreign office was acting on behalf of a request by the biden administration who thought proscribing the irgc at this stage could jeopardise the ongoing negotiations with iran the claim however was purportedly refuted by the us state department in the beginning of this month the uk government announced it will establish a new sanctions regime against iran that will give it greater powers to target decision makers a new national security law also came into effect on 11th july to give the intelligence services and the law enforcement forces more power to combat the threats from hostile states against britain specifically naming russia china and iran the new national security law received the royal assent on 11th july after it was passed by the uk s house of commons and approved by the uk s upper chamber the house of lords why not designate the irgc the foreign office also finally revealed its reasons why it was against designating the irgc in the uk terror list the fcdo argued that since the irgc controls most of iran s economy if it is designated as a terrorist entity every company factory industry etc will be on the blacklist this situation will make it impossible to conduct any trade and negotiation with iran further since the eu will not follow suit britain will be left on its own instead the uk foreign secretary announced plans for a new sanctions regime to hold iran to account for its hostile and destabilising behaviour around the world the uk foreign secretary james cleverly claimed the new sanctions regime will significantly expand the uk s sanctions powers by creating new criteria and replacing the current patchwork of benchmarks under which the uk can sanction iranian officials and organisations like the irgc the new sanctions regime will provide four separate justifications for sanctions all targeted at iran these are activities undermining peace stability and security in the middle east and internationally using and exporting weapons and weapons technology undermining democracy the rule of law and good governance hostile activities towards the uk and its partners including threats to people property or security the need for new measures is said to have been prompted mainly by iran s non nuclear bad behaviour and specifically the plans to kill or kidnap british citizens or residents in 2022 ken mccallum the director general of mi5 said there had been ten potential threats to kidnap or kill british citizens or residents during the course of 2022 with more plots this year in response to the uk government s latest announcements two uk think tanks henry jackson society hjs and the policy exchange have produced new reports demanding the uk recognise the irgc as a state sponsor of terrorism to add more pressure on the uk government the labour party s shadow home secretary yvette cooper this week also called for the irgc to be proscribed and some tory mps are planning a cross bench alliance with labour and the lib dems on the issue of irgc proscription on the legality of the issue jonathan hall kc the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation argued before the new national security act became law that t he irgc or support for the irgc could be proscribed through an amendment that gave it power to proscribe state bodies on the basis of their hostile activity the hjs report was unclear as to whether the new national security law is equipped enough to provide the legal basis to proscribe the irgc similarly this report did not elucidate what the new law s shortcomings are both the home secretary and the minister for state security have praised the new law claiming it will make britain safer against the threats by hostile states but there remain many unanswered questions until some tangible results are seen the new law has a section on foreign influence register scheme firs which stipulates any individual or body acting on behalf of a hostile state in the uk must register iran has developed a sophisticated network of influence in britain over the years by exploiting the democratic freedoms in this country many people in this network therefore should register with firs one example within this network is seyed hashem mousavi the head of the islamic centre in maida vale in north london he is directly appointed by the supreme leader of iran to propagate iran s version of political islam has he registered with firs if so how can one check this register and if he has not is he not breaking the law and if he is why has he not been arrested british iranian comedian omid jalili also addressed this question in his tweet at an hjs meeting this week held in one of the committee rooms in the house of commons i asked the above questions of the panel the nonresponsive reply was with any new law before it can practically be implemented manpower must be allocated new departments must be set up and the right personnel must be recruited before it is possible to implement it so it looks like despite the new national security law and the proposed new sanctions regime bill likely to be implemented next year a hostile state like iran has plenty of time to re adjust and readapt its modus operandi against the slow bureaucracy of legislating and implementing new measures in a western democracy like britain posted by azarmehr at 11 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday july 09 2021 what right do facebook and twitter have to deny you access to your previous posts what annoys me most about facebook and twitter censorship is not so much them flagging a post or deleting a post i don t have a problem with that just as i dont have a problem for a restaurant or a private club to turn you away if you are not dressed according to their rules but what right do the social media platforms have to deny me access to all of my previous posts and images i posted in and the messages i corresponded with my contacts in the last 11 years for more than 11 years i posted pictures and footage on facebook and twitter some of which were family pictures and shared only with close friends yet for the sake of one post their fact checkers deemed against their community standards all of that history is now gone they were user generated contents and not facebook or twitter s properties they should have no rights to deny you access to what you posted before a lot of the correspondence was also with iranian dissidents inside iran if anything happens to them shouldn t the legislators make these non tax paying tech billionaires responsible what could justify the likes of nick clegg zuckerburg lauren culbertson tedd o doyle and the rest of the social media s thought police to get away with this posted by azarmehr at 8 04 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels facebook twitter nick clegg lauren culbertson zain f j tedd o boyle afzar b anwar censorship big tech monday july 05 2021 when does evil prevail the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing this famous quote from the irish statesmen edmund burke has been my favourite excerpt and was part of the banner on my twitter account before it was permanently shut down by jack dorsey s thought police since then i have been thinking why do good men sometimes do nothing and help evil prevail the answer is simple fear we all have different levels of courage within ourselves and we all get tested during our lives fear silences and it leads to more evil more silence leads to even more evil and fear and the vicious cycle continues until it gets out of control today with the ever increasing cancel culture in the west we are witnessing how evil is prevailing steadily for me it all resonates the atmosphere of fear i felt between 1978 1979 in iran that led to the triumph of one of the most evil despotic and reactionary regimes in the modern times the islamic republic first people fear being banned from their social media platforms which leads to one narrative s dominance instead of a free discussion then people fear losing their jobs and the silence spreads further and heavier then people fear being isolated and this leads to them becoming targets for physical attacks then the evil becomes so strong and dangerous that finally people fear for their lives by which time they realise it is too late and they should have spoken out earlier fear really is the root of all evil it is why ideological dictatorships have prevailed they instil fear the good men stay silent and the evil prevails these twitter policy makers are some of those preparing that greater evil to come and now it seems even more obvious how they are bending over to china too from this morning times article following twitter s ban on professor anne marie brady https www thetimes co uk article twitter must not buckle to beijings pressure 5ljddd9bc the chinese communist party does not just decide what its own subjects read and say it determines your doings too yesterday it stopped someone in new zealand communicating her thoughts to the rest of the world including me anne marie brady is one of the world s top china watchers her sardonic perceptive takes on beijing s influence operations and the west s mostly weak kneed response have earned her 20 000 twitter followers for most of yesterday any outsider trying to visit her at anne_mariebrady was stopped by a warning screen get past that and some recent tweets were unavailable searches for her drew a blank she had become a digital unperson she was also locked out of her account so she could no longer post any further tweets message people or complain to twitter brady a professor at the university of canterbury in new zealand reckons her crime is to have mocked the muted international participation in the party s centenary celebrations this month ten years ago at the 90th birthday party foreign leaders showered the regime with praise and congratulations almost the only messages this time came from moscow and cairo among her takes on this was a link to lesley gore s 1963 hit it s my party and i ll cry if i want to twitter has not explained what prompted this brady received only an automated warning that she may have violated the social media platform s rules but the decision probably results from a concerted campaign by the chinese communist party s online agents enough complaints usually trigger an automated block after i had stoked a furore on twitter and sent umpteen complaints her account was restored less prominent victims of chinese censorship would have scantier chances of redress but the episode highlights the way in which the internet which we once hailed as a haven for free speech now makes us much less safe it is quite right for twitter and similar platforms to have the equivalent of a fire alarm allowing other users to highlight child abuse images say or threats of violence it is reasonable for part of the process to be automated much of life operates on the principle that it is better to inconvenience the innocent briefly and mildly than to allow villains free rein however china and other adversaries exploit that fair mindedness and the potential of technology with minimal cost effort and risk thin skinned dictatorships can unleash a flood of automated complaints that trigger twitter s response twitter could punish those who raise false alarms for example by suspending or blocking their accounts but that would be too much trouble the company s main interest is in protecting itself from lawsuits by ensuring that potentially illegal material does not get published maintaining democratic debate is much less important similarly linkedin which operates in china puts a local block on users like me whose profiles use banned words such as tibet and tiananmen square brady is undaunted she is used to harassment from china this may encourage more people to buy her books or follow her on twitter but the episode highlights a potentially fatal weakness in our system our freedoms the rule of law and safety all depend on technology that is developed and run on murky and selfish lines twitter like facebook and google is banned in china by contrast these tech giants flourish in freedom their intellectual property and contracts are protected by laws made not by bureaucratic fiat but by elected legislators these companies vigorously lobby governments and lawmakers on issues such as privacy regulation they ventilate their grievances in the media good luck with that in china they readily go to court to defend their interests too ditto but these behemoths do not exert themselves to protect the system that enables their success they choose convenience growth and profit instead we already see the consequences of that in the epidemic of petty fraud perpetrated via misleading text messages and emails this works only because our banks phone companies and internet companies allow it they could spend money on ensuring that anomalous payments go through extra checks they c...