protesters seeking to put an end to the British monarchial dictatorship who are brutally repressed by vengeful police.
The scale and vociferousness exceeds anything the regime has launched against the United States.
While British Prime Minister David Cameron called the looting and burning “criminality, pure and simple,” Ahmadi-nejad recognized those on the streets as “the opposition” and called the police crackdown on the rioters “unacceptable.”
“What kind of country treats its own people like that?” 
Ahmadi-nejad asked. Some in the Islamic Republic answered: the Islamic Republic.
Riots broke out from protests that had started in London against the alleged killing of a black man by the police. Looters ransacked stores ad set buildings on fire as police arrested and charged hundreds of rioters over four days in its struggle to control the mobs.
The Islamic Republic got its rhetorical machine into high gear only as the riots ended. But that didn’t stop the regime from continuing to rap the British government and to comment as if the street actions were still going on.
Ahmadi-nejad blamed capitalism for creating the economic deprivation that drives people to the streets.
“Over 100 million people were killed during wars in the last 
century and the wrong policies have caused big gaps between the classes in societies. Now, millions of people are in absolute poverty and on the threshold of death,” he said.
“The patience of many British people has come to its end because of economic pressures.”
He also sharply criticized the Western countries of disingenuousness and singled out the UN for failing to notice the “savageness” of the police crackdown during the riots.
“If one percent of the events that have happened in the West had happened in countries opposing the West, their [Westerners’] throats would have burst open [from screaming about it], but the question is: Why is the [UN] Security Council silent and not showing any reaction?”
Ahmadi-nejad was referring to widespread international condemnation of Iran’s crackdown on opposition protestors in Tehran and elsewhere against alleged fraud during the presidential elections of 2009. Thousands of people were arrested, many were beaten and 200 were put on trial; the opposition says more than 80 died as the regime put down the protests.
In Britain, five died. The first was killed by a police officers, and that was the immediate spark for the riots. Another man was killed in the streets and a youth has been charged with his murder. Three Pakistanis were killed guarding the business of another Pakistani when a car ran them down. Three African-Caribbeans have been charged.
Ahmadi-nejad urged the US and Europe to work and remedy economic inequalities in their respective societies.
“Let American and European politicians, instead of interfering in other countries’ affairs, spend a certain amount of their accumulated wealth on the people of their own countries and return it [wealth] to their people and thus give the people the chance to take a breath and live,” Ahmadi-nejad said.
Amin-Hossain Rahimi, a member of the Majlis Judiciary and Law Commission, also criticized the UN and other international rights organs – including the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Islamic Human rights Commission – for failing to take notice of Britain’s “human rights violations” in London.
He added, “Just like Western countries blow out of proportion the smallest issues in Islamic countries, the violation of human rights in Britain should be brought to the attention of world public opinion by providing correct information.”
Mohammad-Karim Abedi, the deputy chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, went a step further and urged the UN Security Council to try the British prime minister for “war crimes” for his crackdown on the rioters.
“If the Security Council does not put David Cameron’s trial for war crimes on its agenda and does not meet this demand of the British nation, [then other member] nations’ views of this council will definitely change more than ever before,” he said.
Another deputy resolved that Iran would work to release the rioters taken in by the police, calling them “political prisoners.”
“Iran will use all of its potential to stop the repression of the disadvantaged in the UK and [to secure] the release of political prisoners,” Fars news agency quoted Zohreh Elahian, chair of the Majlis Human Rights Committee, as saying.
She asked on Saturday that the UK make the necessary preparations for Majlis human rights observers to visit the country, ignoring the fact that Iran does not admit the UN’s appointed human rights investigator.
Mahmud Ahmadi-Bighash, another member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, threatened that Iran was “seriously considering” closing its embassy in the UK. He asked the Foreign Ministry to summon the UK charge d’affaires to explain the shooting of Mark Duggan, the black man whose killing sparked the riots.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Speaker Hassan Abutorabi-Fard said it was the British government’s “corruption” that provoked the protests. “Moral, political and economic corruption of the British ruling system is the root cause of the popular awakening in Britain,” he said.
Earlier, Deputy Ali-Reza Salimi said the London riots proved correct the Supreme Leader’s prediction that unrest will spread across Europe. “The Supreme Leader had informed in his remarks in May that popular uprisings would happen in Europe, and today the prediction has come true, and we are witnessing massive popular protests in the very heart of Europe.”
Others warned that protests would spread further across Europe. “This situation will definitely take place in other countries, because the people do not approve of their rulers and, in many countries, the people do not want their governments,” said Deputy Kazem Farahmand.
Tehran’s Friday prayers leader, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sediqi, attributed the riots to Britain’s colonial past, highlighting them as a sign of the West’s demise.
The chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Alaeddin Borujerdi, said that despite claims about protecting minority rights and popular freedoms, “today we see that they did not tolerate the slightest amount of popular protest and attacked people brutally, killed some people with firearms and imprisoned others.”
“Measures taken by the British government indicate that there is neither democracy nor respect for human rights in England,” Mehr News Agency quoted Borujerdi as saying.
Echoing the same concerns about safety, another senior lawmaker said London was unsafe for next year’s Olympics.
Many countries cautioned their citizens to be mindful of their surroundings as they travel to the UK. Iran went further and told its citizens they should not visit Britain at all because it was so unsafe everywhere.
The warning came as Iran signed an agreement with Syria to promote tourism despite months of massive street protests and the deaths of about 2,000 people.
The commander of the Basij forces, Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naqdi, accused the UK of “strict news censorship,” adding that what is covered in the media is only part of the reality while “many humanitarian disasters” go unreported in Britain.
But some independent Iranian websites had a different opinion about the riots. The content-sharing website, Balatarin, carried a video clip of rioters robbing a man who had just been beaten.
The video’s caption, from the user Metalboys, read, “Judge for yourself: The Islamic Republic supports these thieves and rioters; the Iranian government supports these kinds of people who rob injured people.”
