Accusations of intimidation and harassment within UK diaspora including ‘aggressive’ and ‘coercive’ videos online
Iranians living in the UK have expressed safety concerns to authorities amid heightened tensions linked to the conflict with the US and Israel.
Online videos of individuals allegedly being “aggressive” and “coercing” in London, which is home to one of the UK’s largest Iranian communities, have led to some feeling unsafe.
“There are people that have lived here for 40-plus years and there’s never been any issues, and it’s just all of a sudden we keep hearing every day about incidents involved with these pro-monarchists and their intimidation,” Naghmeh Rajabi, a British-Iranian activist, said.
Rajabi, who came to the UK at age 11 with her family and has had relatives killed by the former Iranian regime, said she no longer feels safe going to Finchley – the north London area known as Little Tehran owing to its large diaspora.
