British charity bosses were hosted by a military chief in Iran and expressed devotion to the leaders of its regime. Syeda Umme Farwa and Ali Iffi, trustees of Labaik Ya Zahra (LYZ), a charity registered in the UK which says its objective is to “help mankind” by advancing the Muslim faith and women’s rights, flew from London to Tehran to hold “cultural programmes”. During the trip last year they were filmed at a meeting with Second Brigadier General Majid Hashemi-Dana, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The general runs Defa Press, a state news agency overseen by Iran’s armed forces, and invited the pair to visit its offices. Watch: the trustees’ visit to IranFarwa, Iffi and Hashemi-Dana met in the offices of the Defa Press news agency, posing beneath a portrait of the assassinated IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani, who had been sanctioned by the UKThey were given a briefing about the agency’s global operations, sat down for
