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Commons Chamber
Britain in the World - Mon 13 Jan 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) are being put under due to the current chaos in Iran? - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (CON - Maldon) Its journalists are all based in London, and they dare not travel to Iran. - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) Iran, particularly in relation to religious freedom. - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) the National Council of Resistance of Iran, in order to lead to regime change in Iran, and we should - Speech Link
5: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) Let us remember that it is this US President who turned his back on the Kurds after they fought ISIS - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 07 Jan 2020
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord King of Bridgwater (CON - Life peer) connection with our present problems over Iran. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) endanger the remarkable achievements of the Kurdish Regional Government, who have valiantly protected both Kurds - Speech Link
3: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The same holds true for any conflict with Iran. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ricketts (CB - Life peer) It has undercut the moderates in Iran and strengthened the hardliners. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Middle East: Security - Tue 07 Jan 2020
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) deep regard for the nation of Iran; I chaired the all-party group on Iran in this House for eight years - Speech Link
2: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) jail in Iran while the situation between the US and Iran escalates further? - Speech Link
3: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) What is important is that the Kurds—and, indeed, some of the sectarian groups, or ethnic groups, in the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 05 Nov 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Abandoning the Kurds, who led the fight against IS, has seen over 10,000 refugees fleeing to Iraqi Kurdistan - Speech Link
2: Andrew Stephenson (CON - Pendle) the conflict in Yemen. - Speech Link
3: Rehman Chishti (CON - Gillingham and Rainham) Will he review this in 12 months to see how they are doing in taking forward freedom of religion and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syria and Iraq - Thu 24 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) We have seen our allies, the Kurds, abandoned. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) Turkey talking in such a way, along with the breakdown of the treaty with Iran and the situation in Israel - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) of them ethnic Kurds who were our allies quite recently in fighting IS. - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) Thousands of Kurds are fleeing with frantic urgency. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit - Sat 19 Oct 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Reid of Cardowan (LAB - Life peer) the United States, because he is a reliable man when he pledges his word—should have a word with the Kurds - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) inward investment in manufacturing in Britain. - Speech Link
3: Lord Birt (CB - Life peer) In future, we may in practice be only half out. - Speech Link
4: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) Referenda will come in Scotland and, in due course, in Northern Ireland. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (CON - Life peer) USA’s wishes—has been attempting to find another money transfer system to work with Iran; it simply - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) He mentioned a whole series of issues including the Kurds, Ukraine and Hong Kong. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) as a,“stain on the national conscience”.Little wonder that betrayed Kurds have been repeating their - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 15 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) multilateral diplomacy on the overlapping conflicts between Syria, Turkey, the Kurds, Iran, Saudi Arabia - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) The latest example is of course the dumping of the Kurds. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ricketts (CB - Life peer) Remarkably, Iran seems largely to have got away with that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Turkish Incursion into Northern Syria - Tue 15 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) ally, the Syrian Democratic Forces, to resort to asking the Assad regime for help, giving Russia and Iran - Speech Link
2: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) It is clear to anyone with any understanding of the situation in Syria that if the Kurds did not have - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (CON - Tonbridge and Malling) and empowered our enemies in Russia and Iran? - Speech Link
4: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Over the years, the Kurds have been our most important allies in the fight against Daesh. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prime Minister's Update - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) No Prime Minister is above the law.No one can trust the Prime Minister, not on Iran, not on Thomas Cook - Speech Link
2: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) As for being trusted on Iran, the Leader of the Opposition took the shilling of the mullahs from Press - Speech Link
3: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) I am afraid she is sadly in error in her history. - Speech Link
4: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) Lady, whom I have come to admire over many years, particularly for her campaigns on the Kurds, the environment - Speech Link
5: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) In the Chamber we have ways in which we conduct ourselves. - Speech Link