The Iranian government has committed countless acts violating the basic human rights of the Iranian people. It is time the UK stood up to the Iranian government.

Women are disappearing or being murdered for showing their hair in the streets. This happened to Mahsa Amini who, on the 16th September 2022, on a family trip to Tehran was taken from her family by "morality police" and beaten until she entered a coma after which she passed away. Mahsa like so many others was murdered by the Iranian government who is still given a platform on the international political scene. This has to stop.

She isn’t the only one. Hundreds of thousands of people have been abducted, imprisoned, tortured and murdered simply for protesting and expressing their right to freedom.

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi arrived in New York City this week for the UN General Assembly. Raisi is on the US sanctions list for serial human rights violations. He is a murderer and perpetrator of genocide, who has openly boasted of his role as a member of the ‘death commission’ which oversaw the massacre of more than 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.

Since Raisi became president in 2021, he has presided over 582 executions, including 22 women and eight juvenile offenders. Sixty-seven people have been executed in the past three weeks alone.

However, instead of being investigated and charged for these crimes, Raisi is given a platform to speak at the UN. 

We demand that the British government supports - with more than just words - the protestors in their current fight against the oppression of the Iranian government. We could, for example, be providing access to the Internet and social media so that Iranians can communicate and organise.

It is also vital that Raisi and the Iranian government be excluded and expelled from the UN and the rest of the international assembly of democratic countries.

Please sign this petition to tell the UK government it is time to act. Thank you.

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Following the Iranian Revolution of 2025, we are now reviving this petition. 

In 2022, during the early days of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, I started this petition, which gathered over 77,000 signatures. I presented it to my local Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, who discussed it with me and raised the issue with the then Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, and with Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office with responsibility for the Middle East.

This petition is being revived because the struggle for freedom in Iran has not ended — it has intensified.

Why should you care, even if you are not Iranian?
Because the Iranian Revolution is not only an Iranian cause.
It is a universal liberation movement that encompasses every fundamental right and liberty that any decent human being claims to stand for.

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, people are deprived of their most basic rights to life, liberty, and security.
This makes the Iranian Revolution a human rights movement.

Women are beaten, imprisoned, and killed for showing their hair.
Minorities and immigrants are discriminated against and murdered — in a country that hosts one of the largest immigrant populations in the world.
This is a human rights movement.

Under the laws and constitution of the Islamic Republic, women do not have equal legal value or equal rights to men.
This makes the Iranian Revolution a women’s rights movement.

In Iran, people are executed for being gay.
This makes the Iranian Revolution an LGBTQ+ rights movement.

In Iran, it is illegal to walk your dog in public. Dogs are confiscated from their owners, and animal conservationists have been imprisoned simply for doing their jobs.
This makes the Iranian Revolution an animal rights movement.

The Islamic Republic persecutes people on the basis of religion and belief.
This revolution is therefore also a movement for freedom of religion. We believe that all people — including and especially Jewish people, who lived in Iran long before Islam existed — must be able to live in, and return to, Iran in safety and dignity.

The Islamic Republic also funds terrorism and exports Islamic fundamentalism across the Middle East, as well as into Europe and the United States.

What Iranians are fighting for

Freedom of expression
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
Freedom of belief
The Iranian Revolution is:

A movement for gender equality and against female apartheid
A movement against theocratic fascism, oppression, and police violence
A movement against arbitrary arrest, torture, and execution without due process
A movement against terrorism
A movement for stability and peace in the Middle East

What this petition demands
This petition calls on the UK government, and its international partners, to:

Expel all diplomats and ambassadors of the Islamic Republic
Freeze all assets belonging to the Islamic Republic in the UK and the EU
Investigate and arrest individuals complicit in money laundering, terrorism financing, radical Islamism, or the theft of Iranian public wealth
Confiscate these assets and return them to the Iranian people through transparent and accountable mechanisms
Continue tracking capital transfers being moved out of Iran by regime officials preparing for exile
Designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation

A moral responsibility
In the Islamic Republic, humanity is witnessing the greatest evil since the Second World War.

There will come a day when your children — or your children’s children — ask what you did when the people of Iran were freeing themselves from tyranny.

Will you answer with the pride of someone who stood up for what was right, or with the shame of someone who chose the easy path?

For me, this is not a choice. It is a duty — not only as an Iranian, but as someone who had the fortune of being born in a democratic and free society.

So please join us in this fight for human rights, freedom, and the right to live.
With your support, we will be stronger — and we will liberate Iran.

Our fight continues.
The revolution lives.