“All the celebrity airheads, of course, pretty much have just nothing to say about it … it’s not involving America, the West or Jews and if any of those groups were involved, of course, we would hear a lot more outcry,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“The New York Times and other papers of record have just not even bothered to put this story on the front page for weeks, and that speaks to a more general apathy about this. 

“This silence of so many people in the face of the massacre of the brave protesters in Iran is something that people will look back on with some shame.”