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The Dangerous Delusions of Western Pro-Iran Protesters

 

The scenes at Brighton train station this week would seem surreal, if not for how grotesquely familiar they’ve become. A protest ostensibly in support of Palestine ended up descending into outright celebration of Iran’s authoritarian regime. One demonstrator, in a moment of unfiltered hate, described the war in Gaza as a “third holocaust” and declared that all Zionists “should f---ing die.” She appeared completely oblivious to the irony — or perhaps too foolish to grasp it — that such rhetoric mirrors the genocidal language used by Iran’s theocratic regime itself.

 

There’s a clock in Tehran that literally counts down to Israel’s destruction. And now in Brighton, some British protesters were carrying posters of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, apparently blind to the implications. When they brandish words like “holocaust” with such casual abandon, they are not distinguishing between political ideologies. They are calling for the death of Jews — all Jews — whether they understand it or not.

 

Among the loudest voices in this troubling chorus are online activists rallying under hashtags like #IStandWithIran. But where were these keyboard revolutionaries when Iranians themselves were fighting for freedom? Were they standing with Iran during the 2009 Green Movement, when millions protested a fraudulent election, only to be met with brutal crackdowns and skyrocketing executions, many of them targeting juveniles and LGBTQ+ people?

 

Did they post in solidarity in 2019 during the deadly fuel protests? Or in 2022, after the morality police killed Mahsa Amini for the crime of letting her hair show in public, sparking a wave of protests under the rallying cry “Woman, Life, Freedom”? Many brave Iranians have died in pursuit of basic human dignity. The diaspora — educated, articulate, and painfully aware of the regime’s cruelty — will tell you exactly what kind of government rules Iran.

 

But ignorance, as always, remains bliss for some. Take India Willoughby, a British trans rights activist who wrote on X: “I could live in Iran. Better trans rights than the UK and US.” She went further, aligning with the Iranian regime by posting “#TeamIran,” a statement that caught the attention of JK Rowling, who responded acidly: “India, a fan of a woman-hating, gay-hating, authoritarian regime? Colour me astonished.” Rowling even offered to pay her fare to Tehran.

 

Willoughby — born Jonathan and known for her appearances on “Loose Women” and “Celebrity Big Brother” — insists: “I’m 100 per cent a biological woman and female. The fact the GC [gender-critical] movement can’t handle this simple fact isn’t my problem. Jealous.” Her sense of reality is, at best, elastic.

 

 

She may not know — or chooses not to know — that while Iran performs more gender reassignment surgeries than any country except Thailand, it is not out of compassion or acceptance. Trans people are treated as mentally ill, their identities deemed “curable” only through surgical correction. Homosexuality is still punishable by death, often through public hangings. Many trans people, once operated on, are shunned, marginalized, and driven into sex work. And gender nonconformity? Completely outlawed. In 2015, Iran even cracked down on tattoos and “homosexual hairstyles.”

 

This is a regime that censors the internet, jails dissidents, and exports chaos through proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas. It is a theocratic dictatorship that suppresses its own people while manipulating foreign sympathizers into becoming mouthpieces for its genocidal goals.

 

What’s most galling is that those who parrot Iranian propaganda while enjoying the freedoms of the West are committing a form of ideological colonialism. They export their moral relativism while importing a regime’s brutality — all while luxuriating in the rights they take for granted.

 

It’s possible — indeed necessary — to want the killing in Gaza to stop. To push for humanitarian aid. To advocate for peace. But peace cannot come at the cost of one state’s annihilation. That’s not justice — it’s genocide. If Israel falls, half the world’s Jewish population falls with it.

 

To claim moral superiority while waving posters of Khamenei is not radical — it’s repulsive. These protesters wouldn’t survive a day under the regime they cheer for. Their hatred is matched only by their ignorance. And that ignorance is deadly.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Telegraph  2025-06-27

 

 

[JimHuaHin]

Really?

 

 

What about "The Dangerous Delusions of pro MAGA Supporters"?

[TedG]

3 minutes ago, JimHuaHin said:

Really?

 

 

What about "The Dangerous Delusions of pro MAGA Supporters"?

Do tell. 

[kevozman1]

Western Leftists are more than delusional. In an actual civilized society they would be paraded to the town square where poles, ropes and whips had been placed, and after an day's worth of action a more wholesome society could continue to operate.

[JonnyF]

Just as I predicted.

 

Lefties siding with Iran. 

 

They always pick the wrong side.