Brexit leader and Reform UK chief Nigel Farage threw his full weight behind President Donald Trump’s tough stance on Iran on Monday, openly backing military action to support what he called “the good guys” on the ground and urging the West to finally confront radical Islamist regimes head-on.
Speaking at a protest rally outside the Iranian Embassy in London, Farage declared “freedom for Iran,” praised the “beautiful Persian people,” and voiced hope for victory despite what he described as the “terrible price being paid by many innocent people in every Iranian city right now.”
The rally followed a dramatic weekend incident in which a pro-monarchy protester, pursued unsuccessfully by British police, scaled the embassy façade and replaced the Islamic Republic’s flag with the pre-1979 Persian flag. The same balcony carries historic symbolism as the site of the final moments of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege, ended by a legendary SAS raid.
Farage arrived at the protest directly from a press conference announcing another defection to his insurgent Reform UK party, which continues to surge in the polls and is increasingly viewed as a serious contender in the next general election. At that event, Farage sharply criticized Western policy toward Iran and Islamist extremism more broadly.
“We should have proscribed the IRGC years ago, just as we should have proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood,” Farage said, calling out what he described as years of strategic incompetence. “I cannot believe the stupidity of Obama, the European Union, the British Foreign Office… who went along in 2015 with this JCPOA deal.”
Farage blasted the Iran nuclear agreement as a catastrophic failure, arguing it unlocked tens of billions of dollars for Tehran—money he says was quickly funneled into terror groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.
“These are massive self-inflicted wounds,” he said. “The regime change we’ve always needed is in Iran, where the wonderful Persian people with all their amazing talents have been trapped under a brutal theocratic regime.”
Farage made his position unmistakably clear, saying he “100 percent” supports military action against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to help opposition forces succeed.
“I very much hope President Trump acts in the next few days,” he added.
The remarks echoed comments Farage made over the weekend at a Reform UK rally, where he again condemned the Obama administration for giving what he called a “life extension” to an “appalling regime” through the JCPOA, while praising the courage of Iranians protesting in the streets.
Farage’s interest in Iran long predates the current unrest. He has previously met Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the pretender to Iran’s dormant throne, whom he has described as a personal friend. As far back as 2018, Farage publicly denounced Tehran’s “nasty repressive regime” and noted that some Iranian protesters were even calling for a return of the monarchy.
“Before 1979, Iran had a monarchy. It was, in many ways, Western,” Farage recalled. “When the hard-line Islamists took over, the world got its first real look at extreme radical Islam.”
Farage’s comments closely track recent statements by President Trump, who has warned Tehran that the United States is prepared to act if the regime continues brutal crackdowns.
“Iran’s in big trouble,” Trump said on January 9. “If they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved… That doesn’t mean boots on the ground, but it means hitting them very, very hard where it hurts.”
As protests continue and international pressure builds, Farage’s remarks signal growing support among Western populist leaders for a decisive break from decades of appeasement—and a willingness to openly back regime change in Tehran.
