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Commons Chamber
Counter-Daesh Update - Tue 07 Nov 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) We will not relent in our efforts to help all our consular cases in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) He also talked about the consequences for Kurds in Iraq of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s referendum - Speech Link
3: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) My constituent, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has been in prison in Iran for 18 months now. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Counter-Daesh Update - Tue 07 Nov 2017
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The UK Government have no doubt that she was on holiday in Iran when she was arrested last year and that - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) conclusion to the imprisonment of Mrs Nazanin Ratcliffe in Iran. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) tensions that exist between the Kurds in Syria and Turkey. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Raqqa and Daesh - Tue 24 Oct 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) The Minister has mentioned Iran. - Speech Link
2: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) We have been clear in saying that there is evidence of Iran being a disruptor in the region. - Speech Link
3: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) But in light of the events in Kirkuk last week, is the Minister concerned that Iraq and Iran are now - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 17 Oct 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) for Iran to supply more weapons—and more dangerous weapons—to Hezbollah. - Speech Link
2: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) He said specifically that the nuclear deal with Iran“was going to be junked”,but“it is now pretty clear - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) in Korea, as in Iran? - Speech Link
4: Nadhim Zahawi (CON - Stratford-on-Avon) a deal that would have avoided the catastrophic situation that now plagues the country between the Kurds - Speech Link
5: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) involvement of the Iranian hard-line al-Quds force using American heavy weapons against our brave allies the Kurds - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kurdistan Region in Iraq - Tue 04 Jul 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) Iran, of course, is resolutely opposed, but it is, thankfully, under intense pressure from America and - Speech Link
2: Graham Stringer (LAB - Blackley and Broughton) Is he really saying that a vote for independence by the Kurds in Iraq would be welcomed in Ankara? - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) the condescending and high-handed manner in which the Kurds are treated by Baghdad. - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) Shi’a crescent by Iran. - Speech Link
5: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) They are mostly from Iraqi Kurdistan, but some are from Syria, Turkey and, of course, Iran. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Middle East (IRC Report) - Tue 04 Jul 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) thanks to President Trump and the US Congress; the Kurds are fighting for state identity as never before - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) 1991, the saving of the Kurds from Saddam Hussein’s wrath and the nuclear agreement with Iran. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) In Britain, Arabs and Turks, Iranians and Kurds breathe the freer air and plot peaceful or revolutionary - Speech Link
4: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) future.That is particularly true in the case of Iran. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Turkey: Human Rights and the Political Situation - Thu 09 Mar 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Joan Ryan (TIG - Enfield North) Human rights are universal and that includes the rights of Kurds, Alevis and other minority groups in - Speech Link
2: Natalie McGarry (IND - Glasgow East) The Kurds have a saying that the mountains are their only friends. - Speech Link
3: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) The World Justice Project’s rule of law index put Turkey 99th out of 113 countries, just behind Iran. - Speech Link
4: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) Kurds and Armenians, as its citizens. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Civil Society Space - Thu 26 Jan 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Brake (LDEM - Carshalton and Wallington) the Baha’i faith is under threat in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Natalie McGarry (IND - Glasgow East) my opinion, is nothing more than a brutal, ideological attack on the Kurds. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Does she feel that one way of addressing the Kurdish issue is to give the Kurds self-determination in - Speech Link
4: Khalid Mahmood (LAB - Birmingham, Perry Barr) In the lobby of the hotel that I stayed in, carols were sung in the evening, and people came out. - Speech Link
5: Alan Duncan (CON - Rutland and Melton) Wallington that we have raised the issue of discrimination against the Baha’i with the Government of Iran - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Iran: Human Rights - Mon 23 Jan 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (CON - Life peer) trying to improve human rights in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) My sixth point is: who is in charge of justice in Iran? - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) As we have also heard in the debate, other dual nationals are in prison in Iran. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Aleppo/Syria: International Action
Programme motion: House of Commons - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) eastern Aleppo—we must ensure that one day they are held to account—and we equally condemn Iran and - Speech Link
2: Ben Bradshaw (LAB - Exeter) Syria shames the Assad regime, Iran and Russia; it shames all of us in this House and every political - Speech Link
3: Tom Brake (LDEM - Carshalton and Wallington) and which is, as I understand it, where the Kurds and the UK and French special forces are active at - Speech Link
4: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) It is up to them—the Russians and Iran—and they have the future of Syria in their hands. - Speech Link