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In Brief: Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander visits Syria

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
IRGC Parade in Tehran. Image Credit: YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ elite Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani, visited Syria last week to oversee a joint military drill, according to Iranian media reports. Ghaani, who was appointed following a US drone strike against his predecessor, Qassem Soleimani, in 2020, reportedly…

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In Brief: Iran unveils ‘longest-range drone in the world’ at parade

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Analysis, Iran
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0; via Wikimedia Commons Last Friday saw Iran display what it claimed was the “longest-range drone in the world” during a military parade that also featured a number of banners threatening Israel. The drone, one of several unnamed aerial vehicles and missiles presented at an event marking the start of…

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In Brief: Palestinian terrorists better armed than PA security forces

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Children at PIJ summer camp in Khan Younis > SAID KHATIB / AFP, via Times of Israel The UN's special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, reported that terror groups in the West Bank are currently better armed than the Palestinian Authority security forces. He told the World Summit of Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya that…

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Analysis: Iranian threat at all time high one year after protests began

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0; via Wikimedia Commons One year on from the death in Iranian police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, Iran remains an international pariah posing threats on numerous fronts.   What happened The first anniversary of Amini’s death, on Saturday 16 September, saw thousands of people around the world take to the streets…

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Yvette Cooper sets out plans to proscribe Iranian Revolutionary Guards

Posted 17 July, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, News
Shadow Home Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter Yvette Cooper MP Shadow Home Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter Yvette Cooper MP has reiterated Labour's intention to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation should it come to government after the next election. In a speech today at the Royal United Services Institute, Yvette set…

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David Lammy sets out Labour’s concerns on IRGC and Iran’s nuclear programme

Posted 6 July, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Shadow Foreign Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy MP In his response to this afternoon's statement on Iran, Shadow Foreign Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy MP made clear that the government must go further to deal with the threats posed to the UK and Israel by the Iranian regime. Lammy set out the case…

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In Brief: Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief boasts of presence in West Bank

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Hamas, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Ziyad al-Nakhleh > Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed terror group based in Gaza, has boasted in an interview that his group was working to establish cells of fighters in the West Bank. In an interview released on Saturday, Ziad Nakhaleh said that Iran’s head of…

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LFI chair: UK Government must act before Iran missile ban lapses

Posted 29 June, 2023 in Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Iran possesses the largest and potentially most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East. Yet incredibly, in October, Britain and our European allies are set to end all sanctions…

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LFI chair writes to Foreign Secretary on “massive boost” for Iran’s missiles

Posted 27 June, 2023 in Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Letter from LFI chair Steve McCabe to the Foreign Secretary Click here for a PDF copy of the above: Letter to Rt Hon James Cleverly M.P Today, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written to the Foreign Secretary raising questions and concerns around the government's strategy towards Iran, and particularly the expiry of sanctions regarding Tehran's ballistic…

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In Brief: Iran-backed terror plot against Jews foiled in Cyprus and Greece

Posted 26 June, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0; via Wikimedia Commons An Israeli real estate businessman and a Chabad House, as well as hotels and entertainment venues frequented by Israeli tourists have been revealed as being the targets of an Iranian-planned attack in Cyprus. Greek intelligence services reportedly also arrested seven Pakistani nationals who were recruited by…

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