{"id":467648,"date":"2026-03-10T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467648\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:11:08","slug":"iran-linked-march-has-no-place-in-british-society-says-uk-minister-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467648\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-linked march has \u2018no place\u2019 in British society, says UK minister \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sackman said a decision about whether the march could happen would be made by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to see marches and the views expressed in this go ahead,\u201d Sackman said. \u201cThe decision\u2019s not for me, but I\u2019ve made my views very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sackman later told LBC that marchers \u201cshouldn\u2019t be on the streets of London calling for hate and hostility against this country. That\u2019s thoroughly anti-British.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organized by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), the march is named after the Arabic word for Jerusalem and part of a wider international event expressing support for a Palestinian state and opposition to Israel.<\/p>\n

A cross-party group of 90 politicians<\/a> has called for Mahmood to ban the march, claiming it would legitimize Tehran\u2019s agenda and send an \u201cunmistakably troubling message\u201d given the targeting of dissidents.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley dated Sunday<\/a> IHRC Chair Massoud Shadjareh hit back at what he described as \u201cexaggerated and patently false claims\u201d that the march supports terrorism and antisemitism. The demonstration has \u201calways been good\u2011natured and peaceful,\u201d Shadjareh added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sackman said a decision about whether the march could happen would be made by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3854,625,5704,1343,20622,59,57,58,585,9084,50,72363,11296,56,54,55,637],"class_list":["post-467648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-antisemitism","tag-british-politics","tag-conflict","tag-courts","tag-enforcement","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-shabana-mahmood","tag-terrorism","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-westminster-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}