Iran arrests doctors, UK medical staff side with Iran

By Abdul Masih —

While doctors are being arrested and beaten for attending to protesters in Iran, medical workers in London showed their support of the Iranian Regime at a Pro-Palestinian march Saturday.

Dr. Alireza Golchini, from Qazvin, had posted on social media he would care for anyone in his home, since the government’s thugs show up at hospitals and haul off patients for jail or execution.

For fulfilling his vow as a doctor to do all in his power to save lives, Golchini was arrested for moharebeh (waging war against God) on Jan. 10 “in a violent manner in front of his wife and son, who is only 11,” his cousin Nima Golchini told The Guardian. “They beat him up so badly during arrest, they broke his arm, ribs and dragged him out of his home.”

Dr. Golchini is not the only one. Some 25 doctors and healthcare volunteers were arrested over the past week, say rights groups and medics.

According to Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) in Norway, security forces raided makeshift medical shelters as well as the homes of doctors and volunteers who treated injured protesters with no information about their whereabouts or conditions in detention.

But that is no matter to medical staff in London, some of whom appeared to flout a ban on wearing their medical uniform and attend a Pro-Palestinian rally at which Iranian Regime flags were flown with the Palestinian flag.

The contrast of doctors being arrested in Iran with medical staff making their presence felt at a London demonstration that flew flags of the regime, the look was the opposite of what hospital workers are supposed to do. It was sickening.

Jo Jo Forsythe, a phlebotomist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, is under investigation for flouting an NHS guidance issued in May 2025 instructing personnel to NOT wear their uniform or badges to protests.

In Iran, hundreds of thousands have risen up against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his henchmen to demand his overthrow. The Ayatollah responded with a merciless crackdown that has killed between 6,000 (verified) and 40,000 (estimated).

Militia imported Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq began firing rifles and machine guns at the protesters. As the body bags piled up, the hospitals filled up. Because the regime’s thugs stormed hospitals and hauled out the patients to be jailed or killed, some doctors began attending to patients privately.

Per IranWire, the abducted doctors/staff are The list of detained medical professionals includes: Isfahan: Hossein Zarabian; Gorgan: Farhad Nadali (released on bail); Qazvin: Alireza Golchini (released on bail), Masoud Ebadifard, Parisa Porkar; Tehran: Amir Khosravani, Amir Poursaleh, Fatemeh Afshari, Golnar Naraghi, Alireza Rezaei; Abdanan: Moein Moradian, Asghar Shakeri, Ghazal Omidi; Rasht: Sobhan Esmaeildoust; Lar: Mohebat Ghafouri; Shiraz: Fariba Hosseini; Ardabil: Ameneh Soleimani, Mohammad Ali Jafari-Zare; Sirjan: Saber Dehghan; Tabriz: Shamsi Abbasalizadeh; Dehloran: Ahmad Zeini, Hossein Karami, Hossein Karimi, Ehsan Ahmadi, Ahmad Khosravi.

“This appears to be a deliberate revenge campaign against doctors and medical staff who refuse to abandon the wounded,” said Hossein Raeesi, an Iranian dissident in exile.

Yeah, fly that Iranian flag at your Pro-Palestinian march, Doc.