{"id":14119,"date":"2026-03-11T10:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/14119\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:27:06","slug":"uk-bans-iran-linked-march-to-prevent-serious-public-disorder-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/14119\/","title":{"rendered":"UK bans Iran-linked march to \u2018prevent serious public disorder\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the first time the Met Police has used its powers to ban protest marches since 2012.<\/p>\n

Met Police Assistant Commissioner\u00a0Ade Adelekan said in a statement<\/a> the planned march \u201craises unique risks and challenges\u201d which include \u201chigh numbers of protestors and counter protestors coming together and the extreme tensions between different factions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe context is so uniquely complex and the risks are so severe that placing conditions on the protest will not be sufficient to prevent it from resulting in serious public disorder\u201d with the public, protestors and police officers facing risk of injury, he added. <\/p>\n

Adelekan said the Met Police had consulted with Muslim and Jewish communities. Officers still face a \u201cchallenging, potentially violent weekend,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Islamic Human Rights Commission, which organizes the march, condemned the decision and said it will go ahead with a static protest. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was not clear already, the police have brazenly abandoned their sworn principle of policing without fear or favour,\u201d a statement on their website<\/a> said. \u201cThis is a politically charged desision [sic]; not one taken for the security of the people of London.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Secretary to the PM Darren Jones defended the ban, telling Sky News on Wednesday: \u201cYou can\u2019t do anything illegal. You can\u2019t incite hatred or violence, or cause physical damage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is the first time the Met Police has used its powers to ban protest marches since 2012.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6498,177,7640,34,49,4396,443,5927,691,7641],"class_list":{"0":"post-14119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-british-politics","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-darren-jones","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-policing","14":"tag-security","15":"tag-shabana-mahmood","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116210070009966677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119","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=14119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}