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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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Christian Wakeford welcomes Israeli student group to Parliament

Posted 2 March, 2023 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI parliamentary supporter and MP for Bury South Christian Wakeford has today welcomed a group of Israeli students to Parliament. The group was a delegation of students from Hebrew University who form part of Israelity, a student organisation sponsored by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA). Israelity provides a forum for the…

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John Cryer pushes government on IRCG proscription

Posted 2 March, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
PLP chair John Cryer MP Parliamentary Labour Party chair John Cryer MP has today used Business Questions to once again urge the government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Tehran’s ideological terror army – a longstanding LFI campaign goal. He asked: The Leader of the House will be aware that there is extensive consensus across all…

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LFI vice-chair reflects on first visit to Israel on LFI delegation

Posted 14 February, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell MP has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Last week, I travelled to Israel for the first time as part of a delegation organised by Labour Friends of Israel. As we heard repeatedly, our trip comes at a time when the state faces both immense challenges and huge…

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LFI and CFI chairs: Iranian terror is a clear and present danger to the UK

Posted 13 February, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and CFI chair Stephen Crabb MP have written the below article for the Daily Telegraph. Click here to read the original. LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0. As it clings on to power with ever greater desperation, deploying unimaginable violence against its own citizens for daring to call for…

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Largest LFI delegation in a decade meets President Herzog

Posted 7 February, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
The biggest Labour Friends of Israel delegation in more than a decade this week met with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. The delegation also met with Israeli Labor party leader Merav Michaeli; Tzachi Hanegbi, the head of the National Security Council; and the Palestinian Authority’s deputy foreign minister Amal Jadou. LFI chair Steve McCabe led the parliamentary delegation which…

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Labour MPs push Security Minister to be tougher on Iran at Home Office Questions

Posted 6 February, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
LFI parliamentary supporter Virendra Sharma At Home Office Questions today, two Labour MPs pushed the government to take a tougher stance against the operation of Iranian agents in the UK, in particular the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the proscription of which is a longstanding LFI policy goal. LFI parliamentary supporter Virendra Sharma MP asked: It has been…

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Analysis: Tehran executes British national as Labour calls for tougher action

Posted 18 January, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Labour came out in support of proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps this week, as the Iranian regime continues its attempts to crush protestors. What happened On Saturday, Iran announced that it had executed a dual Iranian-British national, Ali Reza Akbari, who had previously served a deputy defence…

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