{"id":14008,"date":"2026-03-11T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/14008\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:55:12","slug":"pro-iran-hate-march-is-banned-home-secretary-bows-to-huge-pressure-and-halts-london-rally-by-backers-of-tehrans-murderous-women-oppression-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/14008\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Iran hate march is BANNED: Home Secretary bows to huge pressure and halts London rally by backers of Tehran’s murderous, women-oppression regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Home Secretary last night caved in to demands to ban a pro-Iranian rally in London<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

As a Labour<\/a> minister said the Al Quds ‘hate’ march had no place in British society, 100 MPs and peers told Shabana Mahmood that it would provide a platform for intimidation and extremism.<\/p>\n

The Home Office<\/a> said it had approved Scotland Yard’s request to halt the ‘uniquely contentious’ march.<\/p>\n

Ms Mahmood said: ‘I am satisfied doing so is necessary to prevent serious public disorder, due to the scale of the protest and multiple counter-protests, in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

‘Should a stationary demonstration proceed,\u00a0the police will be able to apply strict conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I expect to see the full force of the law applied to anyone spreading hatred and division instead of exercising their right to peaceful protest.’<\/p>\n

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said: ‘The Al Quds march is uniquely contentious having originated in Iran and in London is organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, an organisation supportive of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

‘The threshold to ban a protest is high and we do not take this decision lightly; this is the first time we have used this power since 2012.’<\/p>\n

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The Home Secretary last night caved in to demands to ban a pro-Iranian rally in London this weekend. Pictured: last year’s rally\u00a0from Marble Arch to the BBC in Portland Place<\/p>\n

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she had approved Scotland Yard’s request to halt the ‘uniquely contentious’ march<\/p>\n

He added: ‘But in our assessment this march raises unique risks and challenges. We must consider the likely high numbers of protesters and counter-protesters coming together and the extreme tensions between different factions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We have taken into consideration the likely impact on protests of the volatile situation in the Middle East, with the Iranian regime attacking British allies and military bases overseas.’<\/p>\n

It came after Sarah Sackman yesterday became the first minister to call for action against the annual march on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards, the Prime Minister’s chief secretary, Darren Jones, hinted that restrictions could be placed on the rally.<\/p>\n

Organisers from the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) have described Iran’s assassinated Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a martyr and a ‘rare role model’ following his death in US-Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n

Marchers have previously called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’ while carrying the flags of Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

The demonstration is held every year during Ramadan and named after the Arabic name for Jerusalem. But given the situation in the Middle East, it is feared it poses a higher-than-usual risk this year.<\/p>\n

Courts minister Ms Sackman said: ‘Those expressing support for the malign regime in Iran and the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) and its proxies have no place in our society.’<\/p>\n

She told LBC: ‘They shouldn’t be on the streets of London calling for hate and hostility against this country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘That’s thoroughly anti-British and I expect the police and the Home Secretary to take the necessary action…’<\/p>\n

Ms Sackman, a barrister and MP for Finchley and Golders Green, which has a large Jewish population, told Times Radio: ‘This sort of thing has no place in our society.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shadow home affairs minister Alicia Kearns added: ‘It would be an enormous insult to our brave Armed Forces if the very people currently attacking them were being celebrated here on our streets.’<\/p>\n

There are likely to be counter-protests from activists opposed to the Iranian regime, including from Stop The Hate, set up to combat anti-Semitism during pro-Palestine marches.<\/p>\n

Scotland Yard does not have the power to ban a protest but asked Ms Mahmood to intervene.<\/p>\n

A source said it was possible that demonstrators could be prevented from marching but permitted to stage a static protest outside the Home Office, which is the group’s intended meeting point.<\/p>\n

But the Met last night made it clear that it will ‘place strict conditions on any static assembly’.<\/p>\n

Join the debate<\/p>\n

Should protests be restricted if they risk promoting extremism?<\/p>\n

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The march is held in the capital each year during Ramadan and was established in 1979 following the Iranian revolution<\/p>\n

Mr Adelekan added: ‘Given the tensions, we have to accept that confrontations could still take place.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

A cross-party group of MPs has already written to the Home Secretary to say the march will legitimise Iran’s agenda and send an ‘unmistakably troubling message’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Demonstrators at last year’s rally chanted ‘Zionism has to fall’.<\/p>\n

Among those who signed the letter are Labour peers Baroness Hodge of Barking and Lord Mendelsohn, Labour MP Luke Akehurst, former anti-extremism tsar Lord Walney and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They said that allowing the march to go ahead would weaken Britain’s credibility internationally and undermine domestic cohesion.<\/p>\n

The IHRC said the event ‘offers a platform for all those who stand for justice against colonialism, oppression and apartheid to come together’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Home Secretary last night caved in to demands to ban a pro-Iranian rally in London this weekend.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2152,34,7596,1178,7595,42,69,7597],"class_list":["post-14008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-dailymail","tag-iran","tag-labour","tag-london","tag-met-police","tag-news","tag-tehran","tag-the-home-office"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116209708160786756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}