Iran protests ERUPT in London as HUNDREDS killed in Tehran

0 January 12, 2026 06:40

The death toll in Iran mounted as protests continued to be brutally suppressed while the UK Government called for the Tehran regime to show restraint.

Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands detained in the uprising against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s rule. In London, protesters returned to Iran’s embassy, toppling the flagpole outside the building.

It is the second day running the Iranian flag has been targeted at the embassy – on Saturday a protester scaled the front of the building to replace the flag with the pre-Islamic revolution lion and sun standard.

The Foreign Office rejected reports from Iran that the UK’s ambassador in Tehran Hugo Shorter was summoned over the flag incident, with sources insisting he merely “had a meeting” at the Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street to call for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be banned as a terrorist organisation – a call which has support from senior figures in Parliament including Labour peer Lord Spellar and former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith.

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