His links to regime

JEREMY Corbyn is vicechairman of the allparty parliamentary group on Iran, whose mission is ‘to foster good relations with the parliament and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran’.

He was paid nearly £20,000 to present a series of programmes for Press TV, the Iranian state-owned television network, whose broadcasting licence was revoked by Ofcom in 2012.

The channel was banned for its part in filming the detention and torture of an Iranian journalist. The last of the Labour leader’s five appearances came six months after the Ofcom decision.

In 2004 Mr Corbyn defended Iran in a blog post for the Morning Star.