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Source: Azarmehr Blog
February 19, 2010
IRI Embassy Dinner at the Millenium Hotel in London’s Gloucester Road
Something very fishy was going on at the Millennium Hotel in Gloucester Road tonight. Since two weeks ago Facebook messages were circulating around about the Islamic Republic embassy hosting a dinner party for its UK business partners in the hotel, but the hotel right until this evening was emphatically denying any function was taking place on any of its banqueting rooms. Yet low and behold the Facebook messages were spot on and the Islamic Republic embassy WAS hosting a dinner party for its British Iranian business partners and associates in its Millennium Conference centre.
More surprisingly, the police disallowed a standing picket by Iranian protesters outside the hotel entrance. Instead the protesters were made to walk around the block without stopping and were only allowed to chant at the dinner guests while walking past the hotel. Even stranger perhaps was anyone caught taking photographs of the guests had their cameras taken away from them and had the pictures deleted by the aggressive security that was hired.
A passer by who was there with his young son asked me what was going on? when I explained the situation he was baffled and said ‘My God I thought the police should protect us from them’. I couldn’t answer him, I was just as baffled as him. For all the rants by the Supreme Leader and the Friday Sermon preachers against Britain being evil and everything else, it seemed business as usual tonight at the Millennium Hotel with a more than unusual special security.
So What Happened at the IRI Embassy Dinner…
February 22, 2010
I am getting more information as to what happened and who turned up for the unusual embassy dinner at the Millennium Hotel, in Gloucester Road on Friday. The banquet seems to have been part of a two pronged initiative by the Ahmadinejad administration to spread its network amongst the disenfranchised muslims in UK and at the same time amongst the professional British Iranian expats who are willing to serve the regime.
Around 150 guests turned up at the banquet. About one hundred are reported to have been embassy staff and their relatives and the rest a mixture of British Iranian professionals and businessmen.
Two of the guests have been identified as speakers who went out of their way to endear themselves to Ahamdinejad’s administration. One was Maziar MirEskandari MD, a Vascular Surgeon at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington who also teaches at Imperial College, London. The other was Parivash Satvati-Fatemi, who is the widow of the late Dr. Fatemi, Foreign Minister in Mossadegh’s government. Parivash Satvati-Fatemi also happens to be the sister-in-law to General Rahimi, Tehran’s Military Police Chief under the Shah who was executed after the 1979 revolution.
It is not the first time Parivash Satvati-Fatemi has tried to endear herself to the messianic junta in Iran. She has been on record before saying Ahmadinejad’s government fulfilled the aspirations of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh. What a terrible disservice to Mossadegh.
Maziar MirEskandari is said to have almost begged the Islamic Republic’s ambassador in his after dinner speech to fund a British Iranian medical society that could promote Ahmadinejad’s government in UK.
Throughout the lavish dinner, there was no mention of concern for the recent executions and the brutal repression of the protesters in Iran. The plight of their Iranian compatriots killed, imprisoned, tortured and the sufferings of the relatives of the recent victims was the last thing on the minds of those British Iranians who attended the dinner at the Millennium Hotel on Friday. What mattered to them most was to be the first in line to benefit from the funds offered by this most despotic administration while they continued to enjoy the privileges of the parliamentary democracy here in UK. A win/win situation they perceive they will enjoy if the rest of the Iranian expat community does not react to their treachery.