Vahid Beheshti has set up camp outside the Foreign Office as he calls on the government to designate Iran's notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.
"I am getting weaker physically but internally I am getting stronger and I am determined to achieve this great goal," he told Sky News as the rain drenched his ad-hoc campsite.
The"Revolutionary Guards" are a state-backed military operation, designed and deployed to protect Iran's clerical regime. They run extensive operations at home - their volunteer"Basij" militia have been using brutal methods in an attempt to crush a popular revolt in Iran.In London, they were accused of targeting journalists at the television station"Iran International", based in the district of Chiswick in London.
"I've been on this very spot in a tent like that, for 21 days and that was incredibly hard. I didn't do it lightly, it felt like a long battle. I feel a lot of what he is going through."
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