A firebrand ex-Labour MP has been criticised for accusing Israel of ‘cynically exploiting’ Iran protests as a pretext for military intervention.
Far Left Zarah Sultana claimed that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was using the chaos to incite regime change.
She also said that the UK should oppose Donald Trump‘s announcement of sanctions on Iran, saying they were an ‘imperial strategy’.
The independent MP tweeted that the ‘unrest is being cynically exploited by Netanyahu’s genocidal government as a pretext for military intervention and regime change – a path that must be firmly rejected.’
She added: ‘Across the country, Iranians are protesting real economic hardship, much of it deepened by US sanctions.
‘From the UK, genuine solidarity means opposing those sanctions and the imperial strategies and aspirations behind them.’
Lord Austin, the former Labour MP and anti-Semitism campaigner, said: ‘Zarah Sultana is typical of the Israel-obsessed hard left that always wants to find a reason to attack the world’s only Jewish state.
‘The Iranian dictatorship has brutally repressed its citizens for decades, slaughtered its opponents at home, sponsored terrorism abroad, including here in the UK and is trying to develop nuclear weapons to wipe Israel off the map, and we should be doing all we can to support the Iranian people’s campaign for freedom.’
Former Labour MP Zara Sultana said the nascent outfit would want to look at ‘democratic ownership in our economy’ to tackle ‘rampant inequality’ it it took control of Britain.
Ms Sultana joined Jeremy Corbyn in founding Your Party but rifts have emerged between the two camps over how to run the movement.
On Monday, the former Labour Party leader also tweeted that any intervention by the US or its allies in Iran would lead to ‘more war’.
‘The experience of repeated regime-change interventions by the US and its allies have shown that they do not deliver freedom or democracy – but instead lead to more war, repression and social breakdown,’ he said.
‘Just as we condemn the use of violence against peaceful protesters by Iranian authorities, we must also oppose interference by external powers that escalate the violence and deny the Iranian people’s right to self-determination.’
It came as the Government once again ruled out proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Business Secretary Peter Kyle old Times Radio Breakfast on Monday that the UK government ‘did a review and asked the independent reviewer into terrorism laws last summer to look into this.
‘He came back and said the idea of proscribing – as we do for domestic terror organizations – isn’t appropriate for a foreign state organization.’