El-Zakzakky: Anti-Shiite Protest Rocks Iranian Embassy In UK
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians living in London on Friday, July 26, stormed the Iranian embassy to protest the activities of the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria across the Federal Capital Territory.
The Nigerians under the aegis of Concerned Nigerians in the United Kingdom during the protest warned the Iranian embassy to stop sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria.
The action came following the demand by the Iranian government for the release embattled Ibrahim El-Zakzaky for treatment in the middle east.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Callistus Abah, demanded that the Islamic Republic of Iran immediately stop its sponsorship of and support of IMN or risk being brought under international pressure from Nigerians living abroad.
Abah said the concerns arise from the rapidity with which the Shiites in Nigeria has evolved into a full blown terror group – a development which security experts and organizations in our home country have attributed to support from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
He said the Shiites have repeatedly claimed to be harmless protesters but the gunshots that killed the referenced victims attests to a group that is not only harmed with firearms but one with members with sufficient knowledge and training to use them.
“Let us remind you at this point the several utterances of a former Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria, Saheed Koozechi,who in some instances warned that Nigeria will regret not allowing IMN the freedom to be lawless,” Abah said.
“We are aware that Iran is presently desperate for distractions that will keep the world busy looking elsewhere while it perfects it’s nuclear weapon programme. IMN terrorism taking over Nigeria provide both the needed distraction and giving Iran a foreign Shia territory at the same time,” he said.
The protesters further demanded that the Islamic Republic of Iran immediately stop its sponsorship of and support of IMN or risk being brought under international pressure from Nigerians living abroad.
“Where Iran wants to deny complicity in the macabre acts playing out in Nigeria it still has the responsibility of coming out to renounce IMN’s preference for terrorism instead of allowing the law to take its course in Nigeria.”
“Let Iran know that the days of diplomatic brigandage are over. Nigeria is not its testing ground.”
It is our sincere belief that these demands would be communicated to your home country undiluted and that we will see a discontinuation of Iranian tacit or direct support for terrorists in Nigeria,”
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on Jul 27 2019. Filed under International, National.
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