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Commons Chamber
Iran-Israel Update - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) It launched a barrage of missiles and attack drones over Iraq and Jordan, and towards Israel. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) More bombs have been dropped there than were dropped in the whole of the Iraq war. - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (Con - Crewe and Nantwich) this attack have to recognise that, since its inception decades ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran has - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In Iraq, the population of Christians has plummeted from 1.5 million to now just over 100,000.Christianity - Speech Link
2: Lord Carey of Clifton (XB - Life peer) as diverse as Iraq, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan and elsewhere.Of course, it is important to recognise - Speech Link
3: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) dispute the figures.At that time, evidence was coming from countries such as Myanmar, Malaysia, Sudan and Iraq - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) While there are challenges in a number of countries, including Iraq and Iran, there is a positive element - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) This includes Hamas, the Lebanese Hezbollah, militia groups in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) It was built around the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and the then Republic of China—the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) They cannot return any more than Jews can return to their former homes in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) Countries identified include the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, as well as Libya - Speech Link
5: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) In Iraq, the number of Christians is now 10% of what it was 20 years ago.Christian persecution is now - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) to the judgement of Parliament that the Republic of Rwanda is a safe country”.Paragraph 11 of the Select - Speech Link
2: None international treaty with the Republic of Rwanda with additional safeguards and guarantees, as well as - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) whether the Republic of Rwanda will or may remove or send the person in question to another State in - Speech Link
4: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) One thinks nowadays of Russia, Belarus, Iraq, Iran and, of course, Afghanistan.I strongly support the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) this issue was on the position of the People’s Republic of China. - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) It is also the case that it has probably lost control of some of them. - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) It is worth noting that when the US carried out actions in Iraq and Syria, its planes flew all the way - Speech Link
4: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) has he made of the sources of that rearmament? - Speech Link
5: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) Friend made an assessment of the magnitude of the figure that the challenge to freedom of navigation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) How is it that the French Republic has called for an immediate ceasefire? - Speech Link
2: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) wider middle east region, due to the scars of the British empire, the Iraq war and the incompetence of - Speech Link
3: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) Today, Israel faces attacks on eight fronts: Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, the west bank, Yemen and Iran - Speech Link
4: Mark Logan (Con - Bolton North East) Twenty years back, with the United States in Iraq, we thought we were being the good friend by going - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) By comparison, the US dropped 4,000 bombs on Iraq during the five years of that particular conflict.What - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) a time of considerable concern in South Africa and globally about Iraq—but its people. - Speech Link
2: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It would apply to Western Sahara, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and maritime disputes. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) African Republic and Guatemala, while 80% of the countries surveyed violated the right to strike. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) of the Secretary of State? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) of the Secretary of State? - Speech Link
6: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) of the Secretary of State? - Speech Link
7: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) after giving in to anti-Israel protesters, it was Jews who could not buy food—a scene repeated in the Republic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran: Freedom and Democracy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) ; notes that the resistance is struggling for the establishment of a secular democratic republic; calls - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) ; notes that the resistance is struggling for the establishment of a secular democratic republic; calls - Speech Link
3: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran expressed alarm at“the disproportionate number of executions - Speech Link
4: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) In Iraq—including in Kurdistan—and in Syria, Iranian sponsored militants have attacked US forces. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) the Republic of Rwanda which responds to the concerns raised and resolves those issues.The Government - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Clause 1(2)(b) is clear:“this Act gives effect to the judgement of Parliament that the Republic of Rwanda - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) However, in expecting Parliament to come to a judgment, in the words of the Bill,“that the Republic of - Speech Link
4: Lord Baker of Dorking (Con - Life peer) Albania will not take refugees from Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, or any of the sub-Saharan African countries.What - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) With that in mind, it is worth remembering that the Iran-Iraq war—a brutal conflict that ended in stalemate—lasted - Speech Link
2: Lord McDonald of Salford (XB - Life peer) of the war, but most of those gains were at the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023. - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) So we stand in awe of the magnificent response of the people of Ukraine. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) It needs that air power desperately.Today is India’s Republic Day. - Speech Link