Rachel Reeves MP Speech to LFI Annual Lunch 18/11/2022 ** Check against delivery ** Thank you, Steve. Chief Rabbi, Ambassador, friends. It’s such a pleasure to be here with you at LFI’s annual lunch. And I’m especially grateful to Merav for making the journey from Israel to be Read more…
Iran on Sunday issued its first deaths sentence linked to the anti-regime protests that have followed the death of Mahsa Amini in September. The accused was sentenced in a Tehran court to death for the crime of “setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, assembly and conspiracy to commit Read more…
Talks between former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and smaller right-wing and far-right parties have begun following this month’s Israeli election, which saw Netanyahu emerge as the likeliest next premier. However, growing warnings about the inclusion of the far-right have emerged both domestically and internationally. What happened On Sunday, former prime Read more…
This afternoon, Labour MPs urged the government to take greater action against the threats to the UK posed by the Iranian regime and its agents at an Urgent Question in the House of Commons regarding the situation in Iran. LFI chair Steve McCabe pushed the government to “curb the activities Read more…
Iran has this week announced the completion of another section of the Chahbahar-Zahedan railway, as anti-regime protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in September have shown no sign of ending. The railway, part of a larger network that form new strategic corridors in Iran, runs through eastern regions Read more…
Israel and its eastern neighbour Jordan have agreed to advance a joint green energy and water deal at the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt this week. The agreement, brokered by the United States and UAE, involves Israel constructing a designated desalination plant to export more water to Jordan, Read more…
The UK’s latest figures on bilateral trade between the UK and Israel have shown a major increase in business between the two countries in recent months, growing by 33 percent. A Department for International Trade and Investment report, released last week, reveals how British exports to Israel are now roughly equal Read more…
Talks between former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and smaller right-wing and far-right parties have begun following last week’s Israeli election, which saw Netanyahu emerge as the likeliest next premier. What happened With all the votes counted and Knesset seats apportioned by Thursday evening last week, the relative success of the right – Read more…
Iranians have continued staging new protests denouncing their country’s theocratic regime in defiance of a brutal crackdown that has seen those arrested put on trial and facing the death penalty. For the past six weeks, the regime has been rocked by protests on a scale unseen since the 1979 revolution which Read more…
The Biden administration last week warned against any normalisation of diplomatic ties with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, insisting that his recent reconciliation with Palestinian terror group was an illustration of Assad’s “isolation”. Assad, who has been gradually restoring links with the Arab world after prevailing in Syria’s gruelling civil war Read more…
Following a series of years-long crises, Lebanon has entered a new period of instability following the end of President Michel Aoun’s term without a successor having been chosen. Aoun’s six-year term, which ended on Sunday, saw mass protests, a huge economic downturn, and the explosion at Beirut’s port in August Read more…
Iranian students have been protesting this week at multiple universities, defying a violent crackdown by the regime. The protests came as part of a bloody crackdown while tensions mount ahead of the 40 day anniversary of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death in the custody of the regime’s ‘morality police’ last month. “A student Read more…