Controversial UK Iranian Front Group Backs Newly Proscribed Palestinian Terror Group

The Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion (IHRC) links to Iran have been high­light­ed fol­low­ing the orga­ni­za­tion’s con­tin­ued sup­port for Pales­tine Action, a new­ly pro­scribed ter­ror­ist group. On June 25, 2025, The Tele­graph report­ed that the Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion, described by the gov­ern­ment as “ide­o­log­i­cal­ly aligned with the Iran­ian regime,” has cam­paigned for Pales­tine Action activists charged with vio­lent dis­or­der while declar­ing “We are all part of the resis­tance!” despite the group’s offi­cial ter­ror des­ig­na­tion. The arti­cle begins:

An Iran-linked group has backed Pales­tine Action’s vio­lent protest cam­paign against Israeli tar­gets despite the group’s pro­scrip­tion as a ter­ror­ist organ­i­sa­tion. The Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion (IHRC) has been described as an “Islamist group ide­o­log­i­cal­ly aligned with the Iran­ian regime” that has a his­to­ry of “extrem­ist links and ter­ror­ist sym­pa­thies” in a Gov­ern­ment review of the counter-ter­ror Pre­vent pro­gramme. In social media posts and at events over the past 10 months, the IHRC in north Lon­don has cam­paigned in sup­port of 10 Pales­tine Action activists charged with crim­i­nal dam­age, vio­lent dis­or­der and aggra­vat­ed bur­glary after a protest at a fac­to­ry belong­ing to Israeli arms com­pa­ny Elbit Sys­tems in Bris­tol last August. The so-called “Fil­ton 10” were ini­tial­ly arrest­ed under the Ter­ror­ism Act, which meant they could be held for 14 days with­out charge. None were charged with ter­ror­ism offences but the Crown Pros­e­cu­tion Ser­vice said there was a “ter­ror­ism con­nec­tion”. The break-in was cit­ed by Yvette Coop­er, the Home Sec­re­tary, on Mon­day as she announced plans to pro­scribe Pales­tine Action as a ter­ror­ist organ­i­sa­tion after the group dam­aged two mil­i­tary plans at RAF Brize Nor­ton at a poten­tial cost of mil­lions of pounds.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/25/iran-linked-group-backs-palestine-action-despite-proscription/

Key Points

• IHRC has cam­paigned for the “Fil­ton 10” Pales­tine Action activists charged with crim­i­nal dam­age and vio­lent dis­or­der after ram-raid­ing Israeli arms com­pa­ny Elbit Sys­tems with a prison van.
• The orga­ni­za­tion declared “We are all part of the resis­tance! We are all Pales­tine Action!” poten­tial­ly con­sti­tut­ing a crim­i­nal offense under the new ter­ror pro­scrip­tion laws.
• Gov­ern­ment data shows 47.3% of Pales­tine Action protests have been vio­lent com­pared to just 0.7% of oth­er pro-Pales­tine demon­stra­tions, high­light­ing the group’s extrem­ist tactics.
• Senior Pales­tine Action fig­ures have spo­ken at IHRC’s Quds Day ral­lies, a tra­di­tion that began in Iran after the 1979 rev­o­lu­tion, demon­strat­ing ongo­ing orga­ni­za­tion­al connections.

IHRC Iran Ties: Influence, Ideology, and Operations

The Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion (IHRC), a UK-based orga­ni­za­tion, has been scru­ti­nized for its ide­o­log­i­cal align­ment with the Iran­ian regime, notably through its involve­ment in orga­niz­ing Inter­na­tion­al Quds Day march­es, a key event for Iran’s anti-Israel for­eign pol­i­cy. IHRC’s lead­er­ship has also been crit­i­cized for sup­port­ing con­tro­ver­sial Iran­ian posi­tions, as seen when the chair­man of the UK Iran­ian influ­ence orga­ni­za­tion praised the Salman Rushdie fat­wa. Addi­tion­al­ly, IHRC has been not­ed for join­ing the glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in alleg­ing West­ern dou­ble stan­dards and racism on Ukraine, actions that are wide­ly inter­pret­ed as ampli­fy­ing Tehran’s nar­ra­tives and legit­imiz­ing its caus­es in West­ern soci­eties. Inde­pen­dent analy­ses and gov­ern­ment reviews con­sis­tent­ly high­light these con­nec­tions, rein­forc­ing sus­pi­cions of insti­tu­tion­al ties between IHRC and Iran­ian state interests.

Exter­nal References:

1. Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion — Wikipedia

2. Islam­ic Human Rights Com­mis­sion — Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report

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

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