Iranian embassy in UK recruiting expats to become martyrs and ‘sacrifice life’

The Iranian embassy posted a verse asking for expats to ‘lay down our lives’

The Iranian embassy in London is recruiting expats to become martyrs and ‘sacrifice their lives for the Homeland’, Metro can reveal.

Iranian diplomats called on their country’s diaspora in the UK to ‘lay down our lives’ for a new campaign to ‘defend Iranian land’.

The message, posted on their Telegram channel, directs Iranians to register their interest with the authorities and specifically references recruiting ‘children’.

The call for martyrs has been labelled ‘appalling’ by Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel, who called for the Home Office<...