Fourth night of violence spreads north

British PM must be tried for war crimes

'British PM must be tried for war crimes'

A senior Iranian lawmaker has called on the UN Security Council to condemn the British prime minister for the brutal repression of protesters in the UK as a 'war criminal.'

Deputy Chairman of Iran's Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Mohammad-Karim Abedi on Friday lashed out at David Cameron for his regime's crackdown on protesters, describing it as “unacceptable,” Fars News Agency reported. 

Speaking at a news conference outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday, British Prime Minister Cameron said he had authorized the use of rubber bullets and water cannon by the Metropolitan Police to suppress the widespread protests by youths -- who UK politicians refer to as gangs of criminals. 

"If the Security Council does not put David Cameron's trial as a war criminal on its agenda and does not meet this demand of the British nation, nations' view of this council will definitely change more than ever before,” he said. 

“The Islamic Republic of Iran as an establishment which considers itself an advocate of the rights of nations cannot remain silent on the British kingdom's crimes,” Abedi underlined. 

The unrest in Britain broke out on August 6 in Tottenham, north London, after a few hundred people gathered outside a police station to protest the fatal shooting and killing of a black man, Mark Duggan, by the police. 

Britain mulls banning social media

Britain mulls banning social media

Social networking sites have fallen victim to the British Prime Minister's irk after the worst unrest in a generation, as defined by UK authorities, rocked the country.

Prime Minister David Cameron made a statement to the parliament on Thursday warning to unleash a clampdown on social media including social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Research in Motion (Rim), the maker of BlackBerry devices. 

Cameron said the government would consider banning people from social networks if they were suspected of inciting violence online. 

The Prime Minister cautioned these social media that they should take more responsibility for content posted on their networks. 

Britain was rocked by an unprecedented unrest in 30 years, which was sparked by the death of a black man in the London suburb of Tottenham. 

Mark Duggan, 26, was killed in a shooting spree by armed officers in Ferry Lane in Tottenham last Thursday, after police stopped his minicab to carry out an arrest as part of a pre-planned operation. 

The unrest erupted on Saturday when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the fatal shooting of the man. 

Colonial legacy cause of UK unrest

Senior Iranian cleric Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi

Tehran's interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi blames Britain's colonial past for the unprecedented social unrest in the country.

“No one thought that Britain, which was once a pioneer in arrogance and colonialism, would one day be engulfed in the flames of its people's wrath,” IRNA quoted Hojjatoleslam Seddiqi as saying on Friday. 

The Iranian cleric said the unrest in Britain was the direct result of the crimes and atrocities it has committed in other countries. 

“The colonialists schemed and spent money to create chaos in [other] countries and today the result of their plotting is the events they have been stricken with.” 

Seddiqi criticized the British government for its lack of media transparency and for imposing censorship on independent media. 

He said Britain's military ambitions -- which have cost British taxpayers a fortune -- have led to social poverty and injustice in the country. 

British PM mocking human rights

A political analyst says the way British Prime Minister David Cameron and his cabinet are tackling the nation-wide unrest is a mockery of human rights.

“[David Cameron] talks about phony human rights; [he] will not get in the way of police using water cannons, guns...draconian powers, cracking down, smashing the youth rebellion,” said Mark Wadsworth, editor of TheLatest.com, in an interview with Press TV. 

Wadsworth also pointed out the British premier is a wealthy man who is surrounded by more than a dozen millionaires in his cabinet who have no "sympathy" with the young protesters. 

“Many of these people in the uprisings are children and they're being treated like the enemy within,” he added. 

The analyst further noted that it is a bit “rich” for the British politicians to describe the youths, who are angry about the economic and war-mongering policies of their leaders, as hooligans. 

“You've got George Osborne, the Chancellor of Exchequer, Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, and David Cameron, who in their youth used to smash up restaurants as part of the Bullingdon Club,” Wadsworth said. 

The unrest in Britain began on August 6 in the north London suburb of Tottenham, after a few hundred people gathered outside a police station to protest against the fatal shooting and killing of a Black man, Mark Duggan by the police. 

Thereafter, violent protests erupted in major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol, contributing to Britain's worst riot since the 1980s. 

Speaking at a news conference outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday, British prime minster said he had authorized the use of rubber bullets and water cannon by the Metropolitan Police to suppress the widespread protests. 

Britain has a bad track record on using rubber bullets against unarmed civilians which has created great concerns among human rights activists and organizations. 

Numerous groups, from European Parliament to Human Rights Watch, have called

for a ban on rubber bullets. 

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