(National-UAE) A British charity run by the UK representative of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, has closed only weeks after the aid watchdog removed its trustees.
The Charity Commission this month announced it had removed the trustees from the board of the Islamic Centre of England over its links to Iran.
The London charity 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 called Suleimani, who the UK had designated a terrorist, a “dedicated soldier of Islam.” Suleimani was killed by a US drone strike in January 2020.
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