Niyak Ghorbani is an Iranian dissident and anti-terrorist activist currently residing in the UK. Nayak has been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police (Met Police) eight times in the last 10 months for attending “Pro-Palestine” demonstrations while holding the sign below. These demonstrators have regularly assaulted him but none have been arrested or charged by Met Police.
The interview was recorded on the day Iraqi dissident and anti-Islamist activist Salwan Momika was murdered in Sweden. Niyak mentions this and the many death threats he also receives.
In my interview with Nayak, he reports that at his first arrest in March 2024, the Met Police refused to say that they arrested him because of his sign, but rather that they were arresting him because he was inciting the mob and allegedly assaulting a woman at the demo.
He was later de-arrested after footage revealed he was the one assaulted. No further arrests were made, however.
The interview: Background
English is Niyak’s third language so I am supplementing the interview with these notes.
Niyak was born in Iran in 1986 and was an IT expert. He escaped from Iran in 2014 after he was suspected of being a whistleblower after information about the use of black-market parts in the commercial aviation industry was leaked to the media. He attempted to publish this information twice. The first time he was punished by being demoted from his IT manager role to that of a baggage handler at the airport he worked at. He then gave the information to a journalist while on holiday in Europe for two weeks. Whilst in Europe he was checking the mainstream media for the information to come out but saw nothing. Upon returning to Iran his passport was seized and he was turned away from work. He was then interrogated by a member of the government. He managed to pay someone to get him out of Iran and was granted asylum in Germany where he began to work for Deutsche Telekom. In Iran, he was charged with being a spy.
Seven years later, in 2021, China and Iran signed a 25-year cooperation deal. For the first time, Niyak put himself front-of-camera as an independent journalist and recorded a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Dusseldorf. He sent the footage to Persian media sources and was spotted and targeted by Iranian intelligence services once more. In Iran, his father and brother were taken into custody and interrogated.
Niyak was then befriended by an Iranian man in Germany who said he had the connections to take dissidents back to Iran. After Niyak came to the UK he discovered this man was an agent of the Iranian Islamist Intelligence Corps trying to tempt him back to Iran to face prosecution.
Niyak tells me how he does not feel safe in the UK today and is stunned by the behavior and double standards of the Met Police and how they have tried to destroy his reputation. Niyak lost his job this year because of his anti-Hamas activism. He has 14 years of experience in IT and every day he applies for numerous jobs without ever receiving a response. He knows this is because as soon as anyone googles his name, his activism, arrests and false charges of assault come up. He still had, at the time of sitting for the interview, two open cases against him for violent offenses which he denies. He finds the treatment he has received from the Met Police similar to that of living in the Islamic Republic.
Bananas across the barricades
In May 2024, Niyak was arrested on a charge of a “hate crime” for eating a banana at a pro-Palestine demo. It was for this charge that draconian bail charges were set.
The context? As reported in Reason and Western Standard in the US, after pro-Palestinian protestors at UCLA declared a ban on bananas because one of their number had a supposed banana allergy, pro-Israeli demonstrators began waving bananas across the barricades “like settlers waving machine guns.”
The incident was also satirised on Instagram
Niyak brought a banana to a London protest in satirical support and the rest is now ridiculous history.
Niyak told me that in the custody suite after his arrest, a Met Police officer informed him that his possession of a banana and a Saint George flag of England was racist and that if no member of the public had made such a complaint against him, the officer would personally. The conditions of his bail for this arrest, as reported by The Independent, included excluding him from attending any protest relating to Palestine and banning him from the London boroughs of Camden or Westminster. These charges still stand though the “wholly disproportionate” bail conditions have since been lifted on appeal.
Humorously, in this post on X, you can hear a Met Police officer saying “I know Mr. Ghorbani has got bananas with him, something he has been arrested for before.”
The Met Police have made him infamous by using exactly the same strategies they used against Tommy Robinson.
Niyak is a big fan of Robinson and talks of the love and support he witnessed at the Unite the Kingdom rally.
Niyak also gives his opinion of Trump and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Islamists vs Socialist Materialists.
Elsewhere in the interview, Niyak talks about the parallels he sees between Iran in 1979 and Britain today. Between a young monarchy trying to placate dual radical elements in society that are both intent on revolution. Both promised utopia, their alliance delivered Hell.
He talks about the alliance between Islamists and materialist socialists in Iran at that time: The socialists wanted to overthrow the monarchy, as did the Islamists, but after they had both succeeded, the Islamists started to cull the Godless socialists.
This is exactly the future we are looking towards with the West’s socialists (Starmer in the UK & socialist progressives in Europe) thinking they are bringing in fellow travelers from Muslim countries who (as Niyak explains) love the fiscal benefits given to them for future votes, but who have a further hand to play.
The UK will soon have a young monarchy. Will King William have the strength to hold fast to British patriotism, culture, and values before the dual assault of materialist anti-monarchy socialists and anti-monarchy state Islamists? This is the question of our times.
*Yesterday, 15th February 2025, The Daily Mail exclusively reported that the Met Police had endangered the lives of three Iranian dissidents, including Ghorbani, after a civilian contractor within the organisation posted a photograph from a police field report that contained the personal details of Ghorbani, Mahyar Tousi, and Mark Birbeck, founder of OurFightUK. The unnamed contractor has been arrested and since bailed.
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