UK: Iranian Activist Given Police Protection

Facts

• On Tuesday, Masih Alinejad, a prominent US-based Iranian activist and journalist, was put under Metropolitan Police protection in the UK following her appearance on the TV show 'Piers Morgan Uncensored.'¹
• Alinejad, who is in London to meet parliamentarians and call for the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, said she has been given 24-hour police protection after the Met received multiple threats to her life.²
• The anti-hijab activist, who left Iran in 2009, has already been the target of two failed kidnapping and assassination plots in the US, which she alleges were backed by Tehran.³
• Under the protection of the US government, Alinejad has been relocated regularly between safe houses since 2020, when authorities first told her she was being watched and that photographs had been taken of her Brooklyn residence of the previous decade.⁴
• Earlier this year, Alinejad and five other exiled Iranian opposition figures published a four-page Mahsa Charter putting forward proposals to build a 'free and democratic Iran' after the fall of the IRGC.⁵
• While anti-government protests following the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini have subsided, many Iranian women are still continuing to defy authorities by not wearing the hijab.⁶

Sources: ¹Guardian, ²Iran international, ³The national, ⁴Independent, ⁵Iranwire and ⁶Al Jazeera.

Narratives

• Anti-Iran narrative, as provided by Time. Iran's rogue clerical regime should have known that death threats would not stop Alinejad from speaking out against restrictions on women, especially because Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had already backed foiled plots to kidnap and murder her. The Islamic Republic is rotten to the core, and is completely terrified of the women of Iran who are defying its authority. It is just a matter of time to its collapse.
• Pro-Iran narrative, as provided by Nournews. Though anti-Iranian media has attempted to create the illusion that Alinejad is a revolutionary leader, she is just a US-backed fame-seeker claiming to support the people of Iran while encouraging the Western world to ramp up sanctions and launch a military attack on the nation. The so-called journalist lacks credibility even among those who protested in Iran.

Predictions