By Mattie Heaven

Across Iran today, women and men are rising with extraordinary courage, confronting a regime that has ruled through fear, repression, and violence for more than four decades.

What we are witnessing is not a sudden eruption of anger, but a sustained national uprising rooted in years of corruption, brutality, and the systematic denial of the most basic human rights.

From here in Britain, we watch as Iranians face batons, bullets, mass arrests, and intimidation with bare hands and unbreakable determination. The regime has reportedly issued orders to suppress the uprising at any cost, resulting in the killing of protesters, including women and children. Yet people continue to return to the streets because, for many, there is nothing left to lose.

As an Iranian-born British politician, I feel both immense pride and profound responsibility. Pride in a nation that refuses to surrender its dignity, and a responsibility to ensure that its struggle is neither distorted nor exploited.

This is not an abstract concern for me. My husband, Vahid Beheshti, has spent more than three years campaigning outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, calling on the British government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

For this, he has been subjected to direct threats, including a religious fatwa issued by the clerics of the Iranian regime. We live with constant security risks that remind us what the regime of the Islamic Republic is capable of, not only inside Iran, but far beyond its........

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