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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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Iranians accused of torturing protesters sentenced to death

Posted 31 January, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0; via Wikimedia Commons Iranian has been accused of torturing three young men it has sentenced to death for participating in the wave of protests against the regime which have swept the country since last September. A report by Amnesty International issued this week highlights the cases of 19-year-old…

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In Brief: Iran arrests three female journalists in protests crackdown

Posted 25 January, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iranian authorities have arrested three female journalists in recent days, local media reported on Monday. The arrests came amid months of protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Iran has been rocked by protests since the death on 16 September of Amini, a 22-year-old woman of…

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In Brief: Israelis back talks with Palestinians and settlement freeze

Posted 25 January, 2023 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Crown Copyright, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 More than half of the Israeli public would like to see a meeting between prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to a poll commissioned by the Geneva Initiative Israel NGO. When asked whether Israel should enter political talks with the PA, 52.8 percent said yes, while…

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In Brief: Amid speculation, Saudis reaffirm commitment to two-state normalisation

Posted 25 January, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Saudi Arabia will not normalise ties with Israel without progress towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians, the kingdom’s top diplomat asserted last week. The comments by Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, followed reported discussion…

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LFI chairs write to Israeli Ambassador on new government ministers

Posted 19 January, 2023 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Today, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay have written to the Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, to express their concern about the appointment of certain ministers to the new coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.   In the letter, Steve and Meta make clear that their support for Israel “goes beyond…

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In Brief: Morocco announces expanded military cooperation with Israel

Posted 18 January, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
  Map of Morocco > Ian Macky, PAT Atlas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Moroccan military announced this week that it had agreed to strengthen military cooperation with Israel, including in intelligence and cybersecurity, following defence meetings in Rabat. The two countries “agreed to further strengthen cooperation and expand it to other areas, including in intelligence, air…

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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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LFI parliamentary supporter Kim Leadbeater writes to PM on coexistence fund

Posted 17 January, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI parliamentary supporter Kim Leadbeater has today written to prime minister Rishi Sunak to push him to pledge UK participation in the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, a longstanding LFI campaign goal. The letter referenced Sunak's comments to Conservative Friends of Israel in December 2022, in which he committed to "explore with our U.S. allies joining…

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Labour backs IRGC proscription for “maximum pressure” on Iran

Posted 12 January, 2023 in Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
At a backbench business debate on the treatment of protestors in Iran yesterday, Labour's shadow minister for the Middle East, Bambos Charalambous MP, called for a "coordinated international approach" to deal with the Iranian regime that would require "maximum pressure" to succeed. In his comments, Charalambous said that a "coordinated international approach to sanctions" was needed…

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