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In Brief: US seeks to calm tensions after drone strikes in Syria

Posted 28 March, 2023 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Drone > avionespana, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The United States has sought to calm fears of military escalation in Syria following a drone strike against groups linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). President Biden stated that “the United States does not seek conflict with Iran”, whilst maintaining that he will continue to defend…

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In Brief: Lammy sets out foreign policy framework for Labour government

Posted 28 March, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East
David Lammy > David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy will seek to ‘retool’ Britain’s foreign policy in order build prosperity for working people under a prospective Labour government. As part of a series of proposals set out in a pamphlet for the Fabian Society, Lammy states that Foreign Office under…

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In Brief: Iran’s IRGC implicated in German synagogue shooting

Posted 21 March, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0; via Wikimedia Commons An attack on a historic synagogue in Essen, Germany last November was reportedly perpetrated by a biker gang leader who now lives in Iran and is accused of directing antisemitic attacks from there. Ramin Yektaparast, who is wanted on suspicion of murder in Germany, was named…

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Christian Wakeford pushes government on Iranian front organisations and IRGC

Posted 20 March, 2023 in Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
  LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford has today used Home Office Questions to highlight the Iranian regime's use of front organisations in the UK, and once again to urge the government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Tehran's ideological terror army - a longstanding LFI campaign goal. He asked: Reports in…

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Labour Friends of Israel: NPF Consultation Submission 

Posted 16 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The below is Labour Friends of Israel's 2023 National Policy Forum submission, to the 'Britain in the world' commission. Labour Friends of Israel: NPF Consultation Submission  About LFI Established in 1957, Labour Friends of Israel campaigns for a negotiated two-state solution for two peoples; with Israel safe, secure and recognised within its borders; living alongside a…

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LFI parliamentarians push the government to keep its Middle East promises

Posted 14 March, 2023 in Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Today's FCDO orals session saw LFI parliamentarians push the government on a number of policy issues. LFI parliamentary supporter and former LFI chair Andrew Gwynne MP asked the foreign secretary about UK support for the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, noting that it is now five years since the UK government expressed its support for the…

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Analysis: Iran-Saudi deal places China’s Middle East role in spotlight

Posted 14 March, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Xi and Khamenei > Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Iran and Saudi Arabia are to re-establish diplomatic relations, following an agreement brokered by China, which has potential implications both for the US’ role in the Middle East and Israel’s hopes of fostering an alliance to challenge Tehran’s bid for regional dominance. What happened The agreement…

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LFI peers take part in Israeli-Palestinian peace debate

Posted 7 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
A number of LFI peers have this evening taken part in a debate on 'calming the violence and build a lasting peace between the government of Israel and the Palestinian people' in the House of Lords. LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay reminded colleagues of how Iran's support for terrorism in the region…

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In Brief: Exiled prince pushes UK govt to proscribe Revolutionary Guards

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Labour Party
Reza Pahlavi > Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Reza Pahlavi, the son and heir of the exiled Shah of Iran, has claimed that proscribing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) would have the effect of “pulling out the biggest tooth the regime has”. The IRGC is Tehran’s ideological terror army, founded in 1979 to…

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LFI chair: Offering Iran a voice at UN Human Rights Council is grotesque

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In the past week, Iran’s foreign minister was invited to address the annual opening session of the UN Human Rights Council. Steve McCabe MP, chair of Labour Friends of Israel, pledges…

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