Posted on 05/04/2026 6:49:31 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Ashkan Asadian, an Iranian British man, chased the perpetrator of last week’s antisemitic stabbing attack in north London’s Golders Green neighborhood and helped one of the victims flee by distracting the terrorist, Asadian told the BBC.
Security camera footage from the Wednesday attack showed the perpetrator, identified by police as 45-year-old Somali-born UK national Essa Suleiman, stabbing Moshe Shine, 76, next to a bus stop. A passerby, identified by the BBC as Asadian, can be seen running in the direction of the attacker.
“Maybe I can save someone’s life,” Asadian, 61, recalled thinking at the time…
Asadian, a naturalized British citizen, came to the UK from Iran in 1999, and has two children who live in Golders Green, which is home to large Jewish, Asian and Middle Eastern communities. Asadian told the network that Iranians and Jews in the neighborhood live side by side in harmony…
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The koranimals need to be expelled from the UK and from all of Western Civilization. Send Starmer and his pals with them.
Security camera footage from the Wednesday attack showed the perpetrator, identified by police as 45-year-old Somali-born UK national Essa Suleiman, stabbing Moshe Shine, 76, next to a bus stop.
I vote for Somali as the worst place in the World to get people from!
Buy that man a tea!
I believe surnames ending in -ian are common among Armenians, who are usually Christians.
Kardashian, Sarkisian to name a few.
British teatime is chef’s kiss…but Persians make the best teas already. 🫖🙂
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