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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jane Dalton

Iranian Guards chiefs ‘tried to radicalise UK students with antisemitic talks claiming Holocaust was fake’

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Senior commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have tried to radicalise British university students with extreme antisemitic propaganda and calls for violence, it has been claimed.

Eight controversial armed forces chiefs gave speeches to Muslim students, urging them to support illegal attacks and venerate people who have carried out acts of violence, according to an investigation by the Jewish Chronicle. The paper claims the talks were hosted by the Islamic Students Association of Britain (ISA).

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