UK govt bans pro-Palestinian march over alleged Iran support

LONDON: The UK government has banned an annual pro-Palestinian march planned for Sunday which London police claim is organized by a group “supportive of the Iranian regime.”Interior minister Shabana Mahmood said late Tuesday she had approved the rare police request to prevent “serious public disorder” if the Al-Quds Day march and counter-protests had gone ahead.It is the first time a protest march has been banned since 2012 but a static demonstration will be permitted, according to London’s Metropolitan police.Mahmood said she was “satisfied” a ban was “necessary” due to “the scale of the prot

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