British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labor government is facing intense criticism for its failure to quickly outlaw Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards. The development comes as a London-based Islamic center is accused of selling goods in support of terrorism.
“The head of the center is appointed directly by Iran’s Supreme Leader. The letter of appointment will be read out publicly at the inauguration ceremony. There is no doubt that the center is being used to spread the influence of Iranian political Islam. It is also being used to recruit disaffected British individuals to be sent to Iran for training.”
The Daily Telegraph reported in late January that British authorities were investigating the Islamic Center of England for allegedly selling Hezbollah phone cases and key rings belonging to the pro-Iranian regime. Britain has sanctioned the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
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A Google Maps photo of the Islamic Center of England in London. (Google Maps)
According to the newspaper, the pro-Hezbollah and pro-Islamic Republic goods were sold at a bazaar on December 14, 2025. One key ring bore the words: ‘By the kindness of God, Seyyed Ali [Khamenei] is our leader.” The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Khamenei, would order the killing of thousands of Iranian protesters several weeks later.
The bazaar would also contain stickers of the now deceased IRGC world terrorist Qassem Soleimani, who, according to the Trump administration, was responsible for the murder of more than 600 soldiers. President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020.
A British Union flag flies from a souvenir stall at the Houses of Parliament in London, October 27, 2025. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
However, Azarmehr responded: ‘The UK Charity Commission, the regulatory body, has been ‘investigating’ the center for five years with no decisions and no updates apart from the appointment of an interim director, but the center continues as usual.
‘The only tangible result is that every time you complain to the charity about the centre, they respond by saying that because they are investigating the centre, they cannot comment.
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“The center’s first head, Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, is now a member of Iran’s powerful Assembly of Experts and a key figure in promoting Iran’s soft power abroad. Araki’s family has British citizenship. In fact, the previous UK government, in which Alicia Kearns was part of the government, paid the center more than £100,000 in COVID-19 leave.”
In this photo released on January 6, 2020 by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, fourth from left, leads a prayer over the coffins of General Qassem Soleimani and his comrades killed in Iraq in a US drone strike on the campus of Tehran University, in Tehran, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
Kearns, the opposition Conservative party’s shadow home secretary, is now demanding the Islamic Center be closed.
“These latest revelations about the sale of terrorist tats by the Islamic Center of England are yet more evidence of why the center must be closed and those responsible for pushing terrorist propaganda face the law,” she told the Telegraph.
“The figures being idealized are responsible for the cold-blooded murder of tens of thousands of young Iranian protesters, contributing to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s many regional and international crimes.”
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The EU announced last week that it has designated the IRGC as a terrorist entity. The US, Canada and Australia have previously designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization. The IRGC played a key role in the massacre of Iranian protesters last month.
Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2026. (MAHSA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
The proliferation of pro-Iran activism unfolded in London last weekend. Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party in the United Kingdom, wrote on X: “When people in Britain shout support for the criminal regime in Iran, we are in serious trouble as a nation.”
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Video footage embedded in Farage’s post and other social media clips shows a mix of pro-Palestinian and pro-Iranian regime messages during the protests.
