(National-UAE) Calls are being made to close a British charity run by the UK representative of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the aid watchdog removed its trustees.
The Charity Commission announced on Wednesday it had removed the trustees from the board of the Islamic Centre of England over its links to Iran.
It has previously received warnings from the watchdog after an unofficial speaker at the centre, Massoud Shadjareh, praised Qassem Suleimani, the deceased commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force.
He had called Suleimani, who the UK had designated as a terrorist, a “dedicated soldier of Islam.” Suleimani was killed by a US drone strike in January 2020.
