BRITISH charities are acting under direct influence from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a bombshell report will reveal.
It will also claim UK authorities fail to combat the national security threat from more than 30 charities and centres with regime links.
The report — Undue Influence — by Lord Walney will say Iran uses the network to maintain its sway and is a threat to Iranian dissidents and Jewish people in Britain.
Writing in today’s Sun on Sunday the former Government adviser on political violence says: “This soft power push is not separate from the violent threat.
“It systematically excuses and normalises it.”
Lord Walney is launching a fresh push tomorrow to amend the Crime and Policing Bill after the decision use anti-terrorism legislation to ban Palestine Action was ruled unlawful.
He said: “The UK needs stronger powers to crack down on extreme protest groups.
“Palestine Action went on a five-year sabotage bender before they were finally proscribed as a terror group.”
The Home Office said a review of public order and hate crime laws will assess if the existing legal framework is effective and proportionate.
