One IRGC commander, Hossein Yekta, claimed Jews “created homosexuality” and urged his audience to “raise the flag of the Islamic revolution, Islam and martyrdom”. Students should see themselves as “holy warriors”, he said, promising that the “era of the Jews” would soon be at an end.

Senior commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are using a London-based student organisation to pipe extremist antisemitic propaganda and calls for violence into British universities, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

The speakers, some of whom who are sanctioned by Britain for human rights abuses, have played key roles in crushing of dissent in Iran.

This is the first time that IRGC commanders have been seen to play a direct role in disseminating regime propaganda in the UK, wrote the paper which has identified eight IRGC leaders who have addressed UK student audiences since early 2020.

At least eight high-ranking officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have spoken online to British students.

Recordings obtained by The Jewish Chronicle reveal that one commander, Saeed Ghasemi, told British students that the Holocaust was “fake”, boasted of training al-Qaeda terrorists, and urged his audience to join “the beautiful list of soldiers” who would fight and kill Jews in a coming apocalyptic war.”

Another, Hossein Yekta, claimed Jews “created homosexuality” and urged his audience to “raise the flag of the Islamic revolution, Islam and martyrdom”. Students should see themselves as “holy warriors”, he said, promising that the “era of the Jews” would soon be at an end.

The talks, which were live streamed from Iran and viewed by tens of thousands of people, were arranged by the Islamic Students Association of Britain, which has a network of branches across the country. The group is based at a converted Methodist church in Hammersmith, west London, not far from a synagogue.

The paper’s revelations sparked renewed demands from leading MPs and security experts for the government to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist group, making organising similar talks a criminal offence. However, the British foreign ministry has so far resisted such a move.

Conservative Party MP Alicia Kearns, who chairs the foreign affairs committee, said: “In organising such despicable talks, the Islamic Students Association of Britain acts at best as a willing propaganda arm of the Iranian regime, and at worst as an agitator for state sponsored terrorism.’’

“To broadcast the jihadist and deeply antisemitic ideas of senior members of the IRGC to students across Britain is a brazen act of radicalisation. We must pursue and prosecute those responsible trying to incite violence here in the UK.”

A spokesman for the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that protects British Jews from antisemitism and related threats,said : “If these hateful comments had been made by somebody speaking in this country they would be prosecuted for it. The organisers and hosts of these talks ought to be held to account.”