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In Brief: Iran hopes railway will distract from massacred protestors

Posted 9 November, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iran has this week announced the completion of another section of the Chahbahar-Zahedan railway, as anti-regime protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in September have shown no sign of ending. The railway, part of a larger network that form new strategic corridors in Iran, runs through…

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Labour MPs keep up pressure to proscribe the IRGC

Posted 8 November, 2022 in Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News
At FCDO Questions this week, Labour MPs again pushed the government to proscribe the IRGC, the Iranian regime's ideological terror army, which has led the crackdown against protestors in Iran in recent months. LFI vice-chair John Spellar MP LFI vice-chair John Spellar joined colleagues from across the House in urging the government to "get on with banning…

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In Brief: Protests continue in Iran despite violent regime response

Posted 2 November, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iranians have continued staging new protests denouncing their country’s theocratic regime in defiance of a brutal crackdown that has seen those arrested put on trial and facing the death penalty. For the past six weeks, the regime has been rocked by protests on a scale unseen since the 1979…

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In Brief: Hamas and Assad’s Syria reconcile after decade hiatus

Posted 2 November, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
Bashar al-Assad > Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Biden administration last week warned against any normalisation of diplomatic ties with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, insisting that his recent reconciliation with Palestinian terror group was an illustration of Assad’s “isolation”. Assad, who has been gradually restoring links with the Arab world after prevailing in Syria’s…

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In Brief: Lebanon enters new political crisis with no president

Posted 2 November, 2022 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
Haidar Almoqdad, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Following a series of years-long crises, Lebanon has entered a new period of instability following the end of President Michel Aoun’s term without a successor having been chosen. Aoun’s six-year term, which ended on Sunday, saw mass protests, a huge economic downturn, and the explosion at Beirut’s port in August…

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In Brief: Iran tensions mount as students defy regime crackdown

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iranian students have been protesting this week at multiple universities, defying a violent crackdown by the regime. The protests came as part of a bloody crackdown while tensions mount ahead of the 40 day anniversary of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death in the custody of the regime's ‘morality police’ last month. “A…

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In Brief: Israel to present evidence of Iranian drones in Ukraine

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani > Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s president Isaac Herzog will present evidence to US officials during meetings in Washington this week which proves that Iranian drones are being used by Russian forces in Ukraine. Herzog arrived in Washington on Tuesday for a short visit that will include a meeting…

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LFI chair: Steps to a Two State Solution: Positive ways to restart the search for peace

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This year saw the 30th anniversary of the election victory that brought Yitzhak Rabin to power in Israel. Three short years later, after a rare period of hope that the tragic conflict…

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LFI launches Steps to a Two State Solution pamphlet

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel is delighted to publish its latest policy briefing, Steps to a Two State Solution.    The two state solution is the only means by which to guarantee Israel’s security and to preserve its identity as a Jewish and democratic state, as well as to satisfy the legitimate demand of the Palestinian people for self-determination and national sovereignty.  …

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