Iranian ambassador summoned to UK Foreign Office over Telegram post

The Iranian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Seyed Ali Mousavi, has been summoned to the Foreign Office over a post published on the Telegram channel of the Iranian diplomatic mission.

“The Minister for the Middle East, Hamish Falconer, summoned the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Kingdom, in response to the Iranian embassy’s unacceptable and inflammatory comments on social media. The Minister made clear that these actions and comments were completely unacceptable, and that the Embassy must cease any form of communications that could be interpreted as encouraging violence in the UK or internationally,” the statement said.

On 15 April, the Iranian Embassy in London published a post in its Telegram channel in Persian, calling on Iranians residing in the United Kingdom to join the defence of their homeland amid a military operation by the United States and Israel. British media, which drew attention to the post on April 28, interpreted it as promoting “martyrdom” and linked it to a series of attacks on Jewish organisations that occurred in the British capital in recent weeks.