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

Source: The Times April 21, 2025 11:52 UTC