IHRC: US Iran Attack Helping to Finish Palestinian “Genocide”

The Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion  IHRC has issued a state­ment fram­ing the  Amer­i­can airstrikes on Iran as part of the broad­er anti-Pales­tin­ian vio­lence tra­jec­to­ry. On June 22, 2025, the IHRC leased a state­ment from Chair Mas­soud Shad­jareh argu­ing that U.S. bomb­ing of alleged Iran­ian nuclear sites rep­re­sents the “nat­ur­al out­come” of West­ern sup­port for Israel’s Gaza oper­a­tions, designed to elim­i­nate Iran as the Pales­tini­ans’ “last remain­ing state-lev­el ally” and enable com­ple­tion of what the orga­ni­za­tion terms geno­cide. The arti­cle begins:

This morn­ing’s bomb­ing of alleged Iran­ian nuclear sites by the US is the nat­ur­al out­come of a tra­jec­to­ry of geno­ci­dal vio­lence inflict­ed by the col­lec­tive West on the belea­guered Pales­tini­ans. Ever since Israel start­ed its geno­cide in Gaza in Octo­ber 2023, it has enjoyed the unqual­i­fied sup­port of the US-led “Axis of Assis­tance”. In addi­tion to pro­vid­ing diplo­mat­ic cov­er for Israel, it has also fur­nished the geno­ci­dal Zion­ist regime with the weapons and intel­li­gence to car­ry out its pogroms.

Read more: https://www.ihrc.org.uk/by-attacking-iran-us-is-helping-israel-finish-its-genocide/

Key Points

• IHRC claims the U.S. attacks have “noth­ing to do with any nuclear threat” but aim to help Israel “fin­ish the geno­cide by elim­i­nat­ing the Pales­tini­ans’ last remain­ing state-lev­el ally.”
• The orga­ni­za­tion describes ongo­ing vio­lence as part of a “con­tin­u­um of white-suprema­cist vio­lence” dat­ing back to Israel’s 1948 estab­lish­ment as Wash­ing­ton’s “mani­a­cal protege.”
• Shad­jareh argues that U.S. diplo­mat­ic cov­er, weapons, and intel­li­gence sup­port con­sti­tute an “Axis of Assis­tance” enabling what IHRC terms Israeli “pogroms” in Gaza.
• The state­ment dis­miss­es offi­cial jus­ti­fi­ca­tions as “dou­ble­s­peak from Wash­ing­ton” designed to obscure the real pur­pose of elim­i­nat­ing Iran­ian sup­port for Pales­tin­ian resistance.

The IHRC: Iran’s Front Organization in the UK

The Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion (IHRC) is a UK-based NGO that has faced per­sis­tent alle­ga­tions of act­ing as a front for Iran­ian inter­ests due to its close ide­o­log­i­cal align­ment with Tehran’s lead­er­ship and its promi­nent role in orga­niz­ing events such as Inter­na­tion­al Quds Day, which was estab­lished by the Iran­ian rev­o­lu­tion­ary regime to oppose Israel. The IHRC’s lead­er­ship has been crit­i­cized for prais­ing fig­ures such as Aya­tol­lah Khome­i­ni and Qasem Soleimani, and for sup­port­ing the Salman Rushdie fat­wa. The group’s activ­i­ties have includ­ed lever­ag­ing EU fund­ing to pro­duce reports crit­i­cal of Euro­pean media, fur­ther ampli­fy­ing its influence.

Inde­pen­dent inves­ti­ga­tions have doc­u­ment­ed that the IHRC’s co-founder and board mem­ber was lat­er appoint­ed to a high-rank­ing posi­tion in Iran’s Supreme Coun­cil of the Cul­tur­al Rev­o­lu­tion, high­light­ing ongo­ing insti­tu­tion­al con­nec­tions between the group and Iran­ian state bod­ies. Crit­ics argue that the IHRC’s cam­paigns, includ­ing its advo­ca­cy for Pales­tin­ian rights and its crit­i­cism of West­ern poli­cies, serve to pro­mote an extrem­ist agen­da and legit­imize Iran­ian-backed caus­es, a view sup­port­ed by mul­ti­ple inde­pen­dent analy­ses. In response to accu­sa­tions of extrem­ism and links to Iran, the IHRC has con­sis­tent­ly denied any for­mal ties to the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment and main­tains that it is an inde­pen­dent human rights orga­ni­za­tion focused on com­bat­ing Islam­o­pho­bia and advo­cat­ing for justice.

Exter­nal References:

1. Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion – Wikipedia

2. IHRC demands char­i­ty watch­dog take action over Times mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion – IHRC.org.uk

3. Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion: Advo­cat­ing for the Iran­ian Regime – Hen­ry Jack­son Society

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