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In Brief: Hezbollah member gets five life terms for murder of former Lebanese PM

Posted 16 December, 2020 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
Rafiq al-Hairi. Photo: Helene C. Stikkel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A United Nations special tribunal last Friday sentenced a member of Hezbollah to five life sentences for his role in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hairi. Hairi (pictured), who was murdered in a bomb attack on his motorcade, had been attempting to curtail…

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In Brief: FASC issues Iran warning as Tehran hangs dissident journalist 

Posted 16 December, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee this week issued a strong warning about Britain’s relationship with Iran. In a report entitled “No Prosperity Without Justice”, the committee suggested that Iran’s malign regional actions challenge the values which underpin British foreign policy. The warning came as Tehran executed dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam (pictured) who…

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In Brief: European powers rap Iran as court upholds journalist’s death sentence

Posted 8 December, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Arak IR-40 Heavy Water Reactor, Iran. Photo: Nanking2012, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Britain, France and Germany this week issued a warning to Iran after Tehran announced plans to install additional, advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges and potentially expand its nuclear programme. The warning came as the country’s supreme court upheld a death sentence on a journalist the…

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In Brief: Iran warned as parliament votes to block nuclear inspectors

Posted 1 December, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Peace process
Arak IR-40 Heavy Water Reactor, Iran. Photo: Nanking2012, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The International Atomic Energy Agency has warned Iran of its obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal after the country’s parliament voted to block international inspectors and increase uranium enrichment. The parliamentary vote followed the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the alleged mastermind of Iran’s…

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Analysis: Can Joe Biden save the Iran deal?

Posted 25 November, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Middle East
July 2015 Iran nuclear deal: agreement in Vienna. From left to right: Foreign ministers/secretaries of state Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Federica Mogherini (EU), Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran), Philip Hammond (UK), John Kerry (USA). (Photo: Dragan Tatic, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) Joe Biden’s desire for the US to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan…

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In Brief: Iran has 12 times permitted amount of uranium, IAEA finds

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
July 2015 Iran nuclear deal: agreement in Vienna. From left to right: Foreign ministers/secretaries of state Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Federica Mogherini (EU), Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran), Philip Hammond (UK), John Kerry (USA). (Photo: Dragan Tatic, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) Iran has stockpiled more than 12 times the amount of enriched uranium…

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Analysis: From “No, No, No” to “Yes”; Sudan is latest state to normalise relations with Israel

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
  Sudan has become the latest Arab nation to seek to normalise its relationship with Israel. The agreement was announced during a call between Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump and Sudan’s Sovereign Council president, General Abdel Fattah al- Burhan, and prime minister Abdalla Hamdok. The announcement – which follows the signing last month of the Abraham Accords that…

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In Brief: LFI chair writes to Raab as Iran welcomes lifting of arms embargo

Posted 20 October, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Steve McCabe. Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Iran has welcomed the lifting on Sunday of the 13-year arms embargo, labelling it as a “momentous day”. In a letter last week to the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, LFI chair Steve McCabe expressed his disappointment that it has “not been possible to secure international consensus…

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LFI Chair writes to Foreign Secretary re: Iran arms embargo expiry

Posted 19 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, News
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Steve McCabe MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, has written a letter to the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab MP, expressing deep concern about the lifting of the UN arms embargo on Iran. In the letter, Steve McCabe expresses his huge disappointment that it has "not been…

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