Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of protests in the Iranian cities of Tehran and Yasuj; and what steps she has taken to help promote the safety of the protestors.

I refer the Hon Member to my statement to the House on 5 January and to the statement made by the Foreign Secretary on 13 January.