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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 15 May 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) We believe that it is of fundamental importance that Iran was not in breach of the JCPOA last week. - Speech Link
2: John Baron (CON - Basildon and Billericay) forget how close the west and Iran came to conflict over the nuclear issue in 2012. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) If the Iran nuclear deal was not the thing to encourage Iran to become a more responsible member of the - Speech Link
4: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) him the Turkish military invasion of Afrin, the numerous civilian deaths and the persecution of the Kurds - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Security Situation - Thu 19 Apr 2018
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Morris of Aberavon (LAB - Life peer) the Kurds in the north and the Marsh Arabs in the south. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) We should remember that, in negotiating the joint agreement with Iran, we operated very helpfully and - Speech Link
3: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) In the Middle East, it is astride both Iran and Lebanon.There is a fundamental choice in many Muslim - Speech Link
4: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) We say that we support the Kurds, who were the most effective indigenous anti-ISIS force, but we are - Speech Link
5: Lord Houghton of Richmond (CB - Life peer) I would certainly include both Russia and Iran in that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Military Action Overseas: Parliamentary Approval - Tue 17 Apr 2018
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) and in Syria in 2015. - Speech Link
2: Vince Cable (LDEM - Twickenham) relation to Israel—and who wants to derail the agreement on nuclear weapons with Iran. - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) The Americans are against Assad and the Russians, and for the Kurds, many of whom are against Assad, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Syria - Mon 16 Apr 2018
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) any discussions must include the Kurds in northern Syria? - Speech Link
2: Jo Swinson (LDEM - East Dunbartonshire) Given that there are those within his circle who are looking for a fight with Iran, it is particularly - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) , Iran and the Assad regime. - Speech Link
4: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) There are so many ethnic minorities in Syria—the Kurds, the Christians, the Shi’a, the Sunnis and numerous - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Iran fears the outcome and is intervening. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syria - Mon 16 Apr 2018
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Newby (LDEM - Life peer) The multi-layered conflicts being played out in Syria—Assad v al-Qaeda, Turkey v Kurds and Iran v Israel—have - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) am afraid the noble Baroness has repeated today, that Assad must go, refusing to allow both him and Iran - Speech Link
3: Lord Green of Deddington (CB - Life peer) is that the Assad regime is winning the civil war and, given that it has the support of Russia and Iran - Speech Link
4: Lord Glasman (LAB - Life peer) days and has paid local al-Qaeda and al-Nusra forces, as well as defeated Daesh forces, to expel the Kurds - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syria - Thu 29 Mar 2018
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) The meeting took place on the day on which the eight-year Iran-Iraq war began—a forgotten conflict that - Speech Link
2: Lord Dykes (CB - Life peer) America supported him very strongly against Iran in the terrible tragedy of the Iran-Iraq war. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) A vacuum of leadership is soon filled; in this instance, by Iran and Russia.UNOCHA has also expressed - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) a political solution and that Daesh will be defeated, when Turkey sees its priority as stopping the Kurds - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 27 Mar 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) We do engage with Iran directly on those issues and they are known in the region. - Speech Link
2: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) Iran is indeed fomenting terror in the region, with funding for the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon - Speech Link
3: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) In pressing the case for a better human rights relationship in Iran, both among its people and involving - Speech Link
4: Ann Clwyd (LAB - Cynon Valley) Many times in this Chamber we have praised the Peshmerga and the bravery of the Syrian Kurds in taking - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syria: Protection of Civilians in Afrin - Tue 13 Mar 2018
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) a political solution and that Daesh will be defeated when Turkey sees its priority as stopping the Kurds - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) The Kurds have been key allies in our fight against Daesh and I think that all noble Lords will be appalled - Speech Link
3: Lord Soley (LAB - Life peer) concern that Turkey, as a close NATO ally, as has been pointed out, has an ongoing problem with the Kurds - Speech Link
4: Lord Hylton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) How can they possibly do so when Russia, Iran, Turkey and the USA have their own forces inside Syrian - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Foreign Affairs Committee - Thu 22 Feb 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (CON - Tonbridge and Malling) In October last year, after Iraqi Kurds held a referendum that voted in favour of independence, the federal - Speech Link
2: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) Is it not true that, without the Kurds, ISIS would not have been defeated? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Iraq: Religious and Ethnic Minorities - Thu 11 Jan 2018
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Glasman (LAB - Life peer) , sponsored by Turkey and Saudi Arabia; the few Shia who were there had support from Iran; but there - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) the First World War, as they are not really happy in any of the countries—Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria—that - Speech Link