Up to 36,000 Iranian civilians have so far been murdered by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Hundreds took to the streets of Birmingham yesterday to demand Western action against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has so far murdered up to 36,000 people in a bid to quash recent uprisings. 

Protesters in Victoria Square burnt images of the Ayatollah Khamenei, so-called “supreme leader” of Iran, and brandished signs saying “Trump act now” against the regime that continues to slaughter Iranian citizens under the cover of a state-authorised internet and phone blackout.

Banners said “IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) terrorists – UK put them on the list” in a direct appeal to PM Keir Starmer’s government to officially proscribe the IRGC as terrorists – something it still has not yet done despite the ongoing carnage.

‘We want Trump to take out the Ayatollah’

One protestor at the rally, who asked not to be named, told WM News: “We want to highlight the scale of the violence and to urge the international community and the media to pay urgent attention to the situation in Iran.

“We are alling on Trump and other Western leaders to use force to take out the Ayatollah and the Islamic regime, and allow the Shah’s son, Reza Pahlavi, back from exile to form a democratic government. 

‘Worried for my family in Iran’

“That’s what Iranians want. We want the freedom to choose the direction of our country.”

The woman, who lives in Birmingham, said she was worried about her family in Iran. For two weeks she had heard nothing due to the state comms blackout.

“Yesterday one of my brothers texted me to say he was OK and other members of my family were OK too,” she said.

She added: “Many people think Iran is a Mulsim country. It’s not. We are all forced to say we’re Muslim by the regime. Personally, I am an atheist, but my country has been invaded by Muslims who have taken over.”

Regime took over in 1979 

The regime has been in place since 1979, when mass protests took place against Iran’s monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, forcing him into exile. 

The result was the return of Ayatollah Khomeini from exile to lead a popular revolution. After a referendum, he replaced the monarchy with an Islamic Republic governed by a staunch Islamic clerical authority. 

The Islamic regime has been in place ever since, becoming increasingly hardline in the treatment of Iranian people while it continues to fund its terror proxies, including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and various other groups across the Middle East.