Farage SLAMS Corbyn's silence on Iran crackdown: 'fluffy leader hasn't said a Dickie Bird'
NIGEL FARAGE criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for remaining silent on Iran despite being actively involved with the issue in the past years.
Nigel Farage calls out Jeremy Corbyn's silence on Iran
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage attacked Jeremy Corbyn for failing to condemn the crackdown on protests against the Iranian regime.
Speaking on his live LBC show Farage said: “There's one person who hasn't said Dickie Bird, his name is Jeremy Corbyn; the 68-year-old cuddly, lovely, fluffy leader of the Labour Party.
“He has said nothing about this - why? Well because he himself has really been rather close to this Iranian regime.”
Farage calls Corbyn out for lack of comments on Iranian regime protests
He added: “He, through Press TV, which is an Iranian state-funded broadcast network, he between 2009 and 2012 earned twenty-thousand pounds in fees from them.
“But far more seriously than that he has appeared repeatedly on a number of platforms with what I would call pretty undesirable pro-Iranian regime types.
“For example in February 2014 he spoke at a seminar in London held by the Islamic Center of England celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.”
Arrests made as hundreds of Iranian protests continue
One person who hasn't said Dickie Bird, the 68-year-old cuddly, lovely, fluffy leader of the Labour Party
Farage concluded: “When you believe that Jeremy Corbyn is what we need for gay rights, for women's rights, for giving us and making a fairer, better society and by the way when he puts those arguments across he looks very convincing, I'm sorry but his record for standing up and defending this hardline Islamist regime is completely contrary to all of that.”
Hundreds of protesters have been arrested in the capital Tehran, and many others have been detained around the country after taking to the streets against the government.
Counter-protests in support of the Iranian regime also took place in cities across the country.
People waved Iranian flags and pictures of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as placards reading "Death to seditionists" on the sixth day of protests in the country.
The protests came after Iran's Supreme Leader accused enemies of the Islamic Republic of deliberately stirring unrest.
At least 21 people have now died since the protests began on Thursday.