About us
We are Iranians and friends of Iran living across Yorkshire. We meet every Sunday in Sheffield to stand peacefully against the Islamic Republic and in solidarity with our compatriots inside Iran.
Who we are
Yorkshire Iranian Patriots is a grassroots group — not a political party, not a charity, not affiliated with any foreign government. Our members include royalists who believe in the restoration of a constitutional monarchy under Reza Pahlavi, and others who simply want a secular, democratic Iran. What unites us is the conviction that the Islamic Republic must go.
What we believe
- The Islamic Republic is illegitimate and must be replaced peacefully by the Iranian people themselves.
- We believe a constitutional monarchy — modelled on Britain, Spain and the other parliamentary monarchies — is the only credible path to a stable, secular, democratic Iran. We stand with His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, who has pledged that the future of Iran must be decided by the Iranian people themselves in a free referendum.
- Iran's territorial integrity is non-negotiable. We stand for one Iran, one nation, equal rights for every Iranian.
- We support the women, men and children of Iran in their movement for Woman, Life, Freedom (Zan, Zendegi, Azadi).
- We are grateful to the United Kingdom for the freedom and safety it has given us. We love this country — its institutions, its tolerance, and the home it has made for our community.
- We hold to the values of liberal democracy: the rule of law, freedom of speech, free elections, an independent press, and equality before the law for every citizen regardless of sex, faith, or origin.
- We are unequivocally against terrorism — anywhere, by anyone, against anyone. That includes the IRGC's plots on British soil and the regime's networks of intimidation operating in our cities.
- We stand with Britain's allies — the United States, our European neighbours, Israel, Ukraine and every free nation under pressure from the regime in Tehran or its proxies. A free Iran will be a friend, not a threat, to all of them.
- We call for an immediate end to executions in Iran. The regime hangs protesters, dissidents and minorities at industrial scale; the death penalty is one of its central instruments of repression and it must stop.
- We reject violence ourselves. Our work in Britain is lawful, peaceful and public.
What we do
Weekly gathering
Every Sunday, 12pm–2pm, outside Sheffield City Hall. Flags, placards, conversation. Everyone welcome.
Political pressure
We write to MPs, councillors and ministers. We urge the UK government to proscribe the IRGC and sanction regime officials.
Looking after each other
We are a community first. Members support newly-arrived Iranians in Yorkshire, check in on each other, and connect families across the diaspora when things are hard back home.
Sharing news from Iran
We circulate verified news, footage and analysis from inside Iran — but on our private channels, not on this public site, so contributors stay safe. Come along on Sunday or ask for the Telegram link.
Awareness in Yorkshire
We make sure Yorkshire knows what is being done in the name of "the Islamic Republic" — through public protest, conversation in the city, and letters to our representatives.
Vigils and remembrance
On key anniversaries — Mahsa (Jina) Amini's death, the 1979 hijack of the revolution, the start of the 2026 massacres — we hold candle-lit vigils outside City Hall to read the names of the dead.
What we stand for
An end to the Islamic Republic
The regime in Tehran is the single greatest source of suffering for the Iranian people. We call for its peaceful, irreversible end.
A free, secular Iran
We stand for a sovereign Iran where every citizen — woman, man, Persian, Kurd, Azeri, Baluch, Arab — is equal before the law.
Solidarity from Yorkshire
Pressure from the diaspora matters. We meet, we march, we write to our representatives, and we keep Iran on Britain's agenda.
Looking after each other
We are a community as much as a campaign. We support newly-arrived Iranians in Yorkshire and stand with members whose families are still in Iran.
The Lion and the Sun
We carry the historic flag of Iran — green, white and red, with the Lion and Sun. It belongs to every Iranian, before and beyond the regime that has hijacked our country.
Honour the dead, free the prisoners
For Mahsa, Nika, Sarina, Armita, and every name the regime tries to erase. For the journalists, the lawyers, the students still in its prisons. We do not look away.
What comes after: a constitutional monarchy
Removing the Islamic Republic is necessary — but it is not enough on its own. Iran needs a stable, peaceful path forward, and we believe constitutional monarchy is the only credible one. We stand with His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
Continuity, not chaos
The institutions Iran will need on day one — police, courts, civil service, schools, the armed forces — must keep working. A constitutional monarchy gives those institutions legitimacy and a focal point for national loyalty. The alternative is a vacuum that ends in factional warfare.
A figure who unites
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is recognised across Iran — secular and religious, men and women, every ethnicity — as a credible, non-sectarian figure for a peaceful transition. He seeks no office. He asks the Iranian people themselves to choose their future government in a free referendum.
Modern, secular, parliamentary
The constitutional monarchy we support is parliamentary and secular — in the same family as the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden and Japan. The Shah reigns; the people, through their elected parliament, govern. There is no role for clerics in government.
A peaceful transition
The path matters as much as the destination. We want a transfer of power achieved without civil war, without balkanisation, and without foreign occupation. A constitutional monarchy gives the army, the police and the civil service a legitimate authority to defect to.
Pluralism, equality, the rule of law
A free Iran must guarantee equality for every citizen — woman and man, Persian, Kurd, Azeri, Baluch, Arab, Jew, Christian, Bahá'í, atheist. The constitutional monarchy is the framework; the rule of law and equal rights are the substance.
Free political prisoners
On day one, every prisoner held for protesting, writing, singing, dancing, organising, defending another in court, or simply not covering their hair must walk free. Their records expunged. Their names cleared.
A truth commission
Every disappearance, every torture chamber, every execution ground from 1979 to today must be documented — with names, dates, locations, and the names of those who gave the orders. The truth comes first, in public. Reconciliation cannot be built on a lie.
Fair trials, not vengeance
Those responsible for crimes against the Iranian people face public courts with proper defence, real evidence and the rule of law — not summary tribunals, not revenge in the streets. Justice that holds is justice that is fair.
Restitution and remembrance
Property stolen by the regime — homes, businesses, charities, religious endowments — restored to the families it was taken from. Citizenship reinstated for exiles. Memorials, on public ground, for those the regime tried to erase.
Learn more about Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi
What the IRGC supports
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not just a domestic repression force. Its Quds Force is the central paymaster for a network of terror, proxy warfare and intimidation reaching from Lebanon to the streets of London.
Hezbollah
Lebanon. Iran's most established proxy — decades of rocket attacks on Israel and the de-facto veto over Lebanese politics. Funded, armed and trained by the IRGC.
Hamas
Gaza. The IRGC armed and trained the perpetrators of the 7 October 2023 massacre — the worst single day for Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Gaza. Smaller than Hamas but ideologically closer to Tehran. Same paymaster, same playbook of rocket fire on Israeli civilians.
The Houthis
Yemen. The IRGC supplies the drones and anti-ship missiles used to attack British and international shipping in the Red Sea — disrupting global trade and forcing Royal Navy deployments.
Iraqi Shia militias
Iraq and Syria. Kataib Hezbollah, Harakat al-Nujaba and others. Rocket and drone attacks on bases hosting British and American troops; sectarian terror against Iraqi civilians.
The Assad regime
Syria. The IRGC kept Bashar al-Assad in power through a decade of barrel bombs, chemical attacks and forced disappearances — and recruited Afghan and Pakistani mercenaries to fight for him.
Drones killing Ukrainians
IRGC-designed Shahed-136 attack drones, manufactured in Iran and supplied to Russia, are launched at Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa every night. The same engineers, the same factories, the same regime.
Plots and intimidation in Britain
MI5 and the Metropolitan Police have publicly disclosed over twenty IRGC-linked plots against journalists, dissidents and ordinary Iranian-British residents since 2022. The Iran International newsroom in London had to relocate.
Hostage-taking of dual nationals
Iran seizes British, American and other Western dual nationals on fabricated charges and bargains for their release with cash, prisoner swaps and political concessions. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe — six years. Morad Tahbaz, still in and out of Evin.
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Come and meet us
The best way to find out who we are is to come along. No commitment, no membership form — just turn up at City Hall on Sunday between 12pm and 2pm. Look for the Lion and Sun flag.