Conservative statements on Iran

Since the present regime in Iran came to power in 1979 and consolidated their position with a wave of executions, they have


🔴Violated the immunity of our legation in Tehran

🔴Abducted and assaulted British diplomats

🔴Pronounced a fatwa against a British citizen

🔴Kidnapped British naval personnel

🔴Seized a British tanker

🔴Backed Houthi, Hezbollah and Hamas terrorism

🔴Supplied drones and missiles to Putin

🔴Sponsored at least 15 terror plots on UK soil 

🔴Arrested British citizens and after a mockery of a trial, imprisoned them on patently false charges


And after beginning their hold on power with a massacre of Iranian citizens suspected of not supporting the regime, they have over the last few years massacred men, women and children for protesting against the tyranny of the regime.

I have no idea how many dissidents the current Iranian regime has butchered but there is plenty of evidence that it is a large number, almost certainly in the thousands.

This is what Kemi Badenoch said today about the action taken by the USA and Israel against the Iranian regime:

"I stand with our allies in the US and Israel as they take on the threat of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its vile regime. The same regime that carries out attacks on the UK and on our citizens, that seeks to build nuclear weapons that would threaten our country and that brutally repressed pro-democracy protests only months ago and murdered thousands of its own people.

Under my leadership, the Conservative Party will always put our national security first and work with our allies to make the world a safer place."

Here is a statement by shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel:

 



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