Israel marshalling Pahlavi monarchists in pro-genocide demos in London

By David Miller

In recent weeks, the presence of anti-Iran groups in pro-genocide demonstrations has become increasingly obvious in the United Kingdom. 

A key moment was the arrest of a lone protester on March 9 holding a sign saying “Hamas is Terrorist” in the middle of thousands of people protesting against genocide perpetuated by the Israeli regime against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 

The provocation earned him an arrest for assault. According to the Metropolitan Police statement, allegations that he was arrested for having an “anti-Hamas placard” were not “accurate”. 

He was arrested, the police said, after “officers intervened to prevent a breach of the peace. He was arrested for assault.”

The protestor was Niyak Ghorbani, an Iranian counter-revolutionary and supporter of the Pahlavi dynasty. It turns out that he had been attempting to provoke protestors campaigning against genocide since early November 2023 at which point his sign was handwritten. 

By March 9, his placard was professionally printed. Here he is attempting to provoke demonstrators.

In subsequent demonstrations organized by Zionist infiltrators and the cultish ‘Our Fight UK’, there was a sizeable Pahlavist presence.

Here is Ghorbani on March 30 with Mark Birbeck from Our Fight UK another Zionist front group about which I recently wrote. 

The accompanying text reads: “I have chosen to be the voice of the good people who have remained silent. Like the voice of Iranians who love Iran and have no trust or hope in anyone but Prince Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza!”

And here he ison the same day with one of his Pahlavist friends.

By April 10, Ghorbani had been arrested for the third time and according to Zionist supporters he was “banned from attending more protests.” 

Pertinently, Ghorbani is the host of the @NasleAkhar podcast which regularly reposts memes direct from the social media accounts of Reza Pahlavi, the wannabe prince. 

Enter the ‘Hasbara power couple’

On March 28, Zionist collaborator, the “Israeli Arab”, Yoseph Haddad attended another tiny demonstration in north London. He is one half of the so-called ‘Hasbara power couple’ with Emily Schrader, the settler colonist originally from the US. 

After the event, a seminar bewailing the alleged media bias against genocide was held. The speakers nicely illustrated the recruitment of Iranian supporters of the dictatorship as Zionist assets. As well as fanatical Zionists, the journalist John Ware and a Henry Jackson Society fellow, Barak Seener, were Pahlavistzealots Nader Falla and Elaheh Jamali.

Nader Falla asserted: “The cause of your problems is the Iranian regime.”

Elaheh Jamali spoke fancifully about the alleged strong bond between Israelis and Iranians: “We are one nation in two lands. Persians and Israelis have always been allies.”

But fanciful, though it is, in her mind as a monarchist Iranian nationalist there are key similarities between Iranian nationalism and Zionism not least in their racist sense of superiority over the Arabs/Palestinians, as the historian Reza Zia-Ebrahimi has written:

The claim to belong to the “Aryan race,” believed to be rooted in the ancient self-designation ariya, is a fundamental pillar of the Iranian nationalist discourse. [However], in fact, it is a twentieth-century import from Europe, where after being instrumentalized for colonial endeavors and Nazi atrocities, it has become almost completely discredited. Yet Iranians continue to nonchalantly refer to themselves as Aryans and the myth of the “land of Aryans” persists, even in academic circles.

In another paper, he argues:

The pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to Europe and the Aryan race.

Jamali is reportedly also known by her social media username Lily Moo and has been a Zionist asset for some months having spoken at a pro-genocide rally in November 2023 which was promoted by the Zionist agent Hen Mazzig.

During her speech from the stage, she was flanked by a Pahlavist sporting the royalist flag emblazoned with a portrait of would-be dictator Reza Pahlavi.

All of these actors are organized supporters of the counter-revolutionary son of the deposed brutal Western-backed Shah of Iran. They have increasingly made up a significant proportion of tiny pro-genocide demonstrations in London. 

From the CIA, via Saudi Arabia to Mossad?

When Zionist asset, the social influencer known as Lily Moo,posted her speech to a pro-genocide rally in London on Instagram, she collaborated on the post with another user account called Kayhan Life.

What is this? It says it is “independent” media, but it is run by an Iranian journalist who has a career history in US government propaganda outlets.

She is called Nazenin Ansari. Ansari is the ex-wife of the Iranian billionaire who owns Everton football club and has been plagued by corruption allegations over his relations with a Russian oligarch.

In the past, Ansari worked directly for US state propaganda outlets. She was the “London Producer and Chief Correspondent for VOA Persian” and moderated a bi-weekly roundtable discussion on Manoto Television called, “In Hafteh” (This Week).

Manoto appears to have been a US-backed operation too. According to CBS News, it is “believed to be run by those who back Iran's ousted Shah”, while other sources have suggested it was funded by the Pentagon.

Also at Manoto (between 2010 and 2018) was journalist Pantea Modiri. She played a “pivotal role” in setting up Radio Zamenah in 2005, which admits that amongst its past and present sponsors were the US Department of State, the National Endowment for Democracy (the CIA front), the Canada Dept for Foreign Affairs and the Soros directed Open Society Foundations.

Also involved has been the Digital Defenders Partnership, a propaganda outfit funded by a slew of Western governments including the UK and the US.

Today Modiri says that she has worked for Volant Media UK Ltd since 2018. In reality, she works for its subsidiary Iran International which has historically been funded by the Saudi regime and controlled by its Foreign Ministry, though it publicly denied these facts for a number of years. 

All pretense was dropped, however, when China brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi. One of the points of agreement was that Saudis would cease to fund the propaganda station.

It looks like the money had already been pulled out since February 2023 when Iran International shut down under the cover of claims that the station had been “threatened” by Iran. Looking back, it seems these claims were simply window dressing.

In August 2023, the channel confirmed it had already moved “to our new studios, where we have implemented bespoke security measures under Police guidance” said Mahmood Enayat, General Manager of Volant Media.

In preparation for its official launch, Iranian Pahlavist journalists got a special briefing from Israel's Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel on 6 September 2023.

Picking up the tone of their Masters Voice were representatives fromKayhan Life, who would later promote their Pahlavist assets on recent pro-genocide demonstrations. 

Also there, in pride of place at the minister’s left hand, was the former US propaganda asset Pantea Modiri, now working for Iran International.

Was the Zionist intelligence minister there as a representative of the new backers of the channel giving her assets new marching orders, orders that would result in Pahlavist contributions to the pro-genocide provocations seen on the streets of London in early 2024?

David Miller is the producer and co-host of Press TV’s weekly Palestine Declassified show. He was sacked from Bristol University in October 2021 over his Palestine advocacy. 

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