Charity Regulator Opens Inquiry Over Soleimani ‘Remembrance’ Event

The Charity Commission is investigating an Islamic charity over a third-party event held in one of its premises where speakers praised Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, the regulator said on Wednesday. Anti-Semitic chants were also heard during the event, which was held in 2020 at a premise run by the Al-Tawheed Charitable Trust (TUCF), the regulator said. The statutory inquiry, launched on Jan. 30, is an escalation of a compliance case opened in August last year after The Sunday Times reported that a “packed event” on Jan. 5, 2020, celebrated Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force who had just been assassinated in a U.S. airstrike....