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Michael Fabricant Excerpts
Tuesday 6th September 2022

(2 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amanda Milling Portrait Amanda Milling
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The UK maintains a range of sanctions that work to constrain the destabilising activity of the IRGC. The list of proscribed organisations is kept under constant review, but we do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is under consideration for proscription.

Michael Fabricant Portrait Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con)
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The hostility with Iran has caused even greater friendship between the adjoining Arab countries and the state of Israel, so is not now the time to follow the US and some other countries by moving the British embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital of Israel, where its Parliament is, Jerusalem?

Amanda Milling Portrait Amanda Milling
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My hon. Friend is right to say that the UK and Israel share a thriving relationship, working together on bilateral priorities, as well as on regional issues of mutual concern. The British embassy in Israel is in Tel Aviv. I am aware of the possibility of a review but will not speculate further on this point.