Iran’s embassy in Britain urges expats to become ‘martyrs’

It's not all about control though. People do really believe this stuff.

Wish we could have a set of totally secular world governments. But religion is about control and goes hand in hand with power seeking so we have to live with these nutters and their impacts.

They do appear to be apocalyptic, but what % of the population agree with that will be difficult to know, given the problems with polling.

Article here I found on it. But there is a problem with this article:

The Eschatological Vision Behind Iran’s Hatred of Israel: A Shia Messianic War (4timorr.org)

The problem with the article is the author: "Tim Orr is a scholar of Islam, Evangelical minister,". An evangelical. so he is also apocalyptic.

Here is a similar article from the Times of Israel. This article shares some of the same references as above.

The Blogs: Iran’s War Against Israel: The Shia Eschatological Vision & Messianic Conflict | Tim Orr | The Times of Israel

I myself am atheist, so this is all nonsense to me. But there is a compounding problem here in that the current Whitehouse admin are also apocalyptic. Hegseth for example has clearly made this out to be a "holy" war of some sort. Hegseth is a rapturist. A lot of US evangelism is about how for their Jesus to come back the Temple in Jerusalem has to be rebuilt for the Book of Revelation to happen. Then Jesus will come back, big battle, and the "good" go upstairs.

Another Times of Israel article on Hegseth. From 2024

Trump's nominee for Pentagon chief suggested new temple could be built on Temple Mount | The Times of Israel

While that article does not say exactly why he wants the temple rebuilt, you don't need to go far to find why. It's to bring the apocalypse.

How to solve this ? No idea.

The Iranian regime are straight-up apocalyptic religious lunatics.

I can't imagine many Iranian exiles in the UK listening to this. There's a reason why they're exiles.

I didn't say "must" I said "could". My comment is aimed at reassuring the OP that emojis don't actually mean anything IRL and can mean different things to different people using them anyway. I'm not tying myself in knots about anything. Including knots about a bunch of pixels on a webpage.

Well today there was another attack on Jewish people.

Counter terrorism police probe Iranian involvement in attacks on Jewish venues.

Well they are calling for martyrs. Need to close the Iranian embassy and proscribe that terrorist group
Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI), the Arabic name meaning “The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right(eous)”, ...

Time for the Iranian Embassy to leave our shores

Fucking hell, this place 🤣
Why do people on here always twist themselves in knots to avoid acknowledging the obvious.

”Oh alll those thumbs up? Couldn’t possibly people who like the message. It mUSt bE rAciSts iMAgiNinG dEaD IrANiAns”

Finally but I understand that the Labour Party was dragged to this point kicking and screaming and only after they were snookered by the EU doing it first. Should have happened in 1979 and that goes for my country too.

Australia kicked out the Iranian ambassador in 2025 and has proscribed the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. One sensible thing our government has done. The UK should follow suit.

The often mentioned "20 terror attacks in UK" is mostly plots against Iranian dissidents. And that is why the UK asylum system is so important. The PRC and Russia do the same. And they go after relatives in the home country too.

That’s a win for any Iranian asylum seekers. The can say they’re anti-regime and now have more evidence they will be targeted.

Is that all?😬

My elderly uncle gets more SM reaction than that on his pilgrimage pics.🤣🤣🤣

The post targeting UK expats already has almost 400 heart emojis, 27 thumbs up reactions and 26 prayer emojis, according to the Standard

Those aren't necessarily support for the message. The prayer emoji is often used to show support meaning prayers for those affected. The heart emoji also gets used to signify support or comfort. The thumbs up could be from racist people thinking well that's one less Iranian then (expecting it's a suicide mission). So I wouldn't read too much into those.

It will impact anyone who doesn't have any other citizenship I think. How will they renew a visa to stay in the host country if they have no nationality anywhere? They will be forced to become refugees. I don't know about other countries but in the UK this means they won't be able to work, the benefits system is different for refugees I think so as well as losing their jobs I wonder if they'll lose their homes, if they've no means to pay their rent or mortgage? They can rebuild their lives after their asylum claim is accepted but that will take time and in the meantime if they've become homeless and jobless they may also lose all of their possessions too (nowhere to put them). So for some people it could have a disastrous impact. For Britain as a whole, too, if it means a sudden loss of people in skilled positions and a sudden increase in benefits claims from Iranians forced to become asylum seekers. I have no idea how many Iranians on working visas are in the UK.

I have Iranian friends in the UK and they couldn’t care less about their Iranian citizenship.. they would be terrified to go back!