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Stolen dissident phone found in Iranian embassy in London

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An anti-Iranian regime protester who was attacked by mourners for Raisi on Friday told international media that her phone was stolen during the clashes and later turned on at the Iranian embassy in London.

Four people were injured in Friday’s clashes. London police confirmed that arrests had been made. The investigation is ongoing.

The 43-year-old woman, Ellie Borham, told the telegraph that she was part of a five-person protest rally outside a ceremony for the now deceased Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

“We were standing there peacefully and then the men came. They surrounded us. They threatened us,” she told the Telegraph. “They hit me in the face, body and legs. One of the men said: ‘We are going to kill you.'”

People pay their respects to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during a mourning ceremony in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, May 21. (Source: Stringer/WANA)

“It’s unbelievable. Four of us were injured. These were the hands of the IRGC on British soil,” she added.

After being hospitalized for injuries sustained in the attack, she claimed, “They were waiting for us outside the hospital” and only left when police arrived an hour later. Two cars belonging to the pro-regime group reportedly followed Borham to the hospital.

Niyak Ghorbani, an Iranian anti-Hamas activist who took part in the protest, claimed on Sunday that one of those injured by the pro-regime attackers remained in hospital with a spinal injury. Ghorbani said the protester was unable to walk, although it was unclear whether the injury was temporary.

IRGC influence in London

Concerns about Iran’s influence over dissidents in London have grown in recent years. Last month, an Iranian dissident working for Iran International was stabbed to death by a fake Jerusalem Post reporter. Although it has not been officially determined whether the IRGC was involved in the attack, the attackers were able to flee the UK just hours after the stabbings.

In December, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron also summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires in London, Mahdi Hosseini Matin, because of an Iranian plot to murder two journalists from Iran International.



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