Theresa Villiers proposed the pressing query, asking in regards to the representations the international secretary has made to the Iranian authorities in regards to the ongoing protests relating to the loss of life of Mahsa Amini.
Gillian Keegan, MP for Chichester who was talking on behalf of the international secretary, James Cleverly, stated that the protests have been a “surprising reminder” of the repression confronted by ladies in Iran, and that 200 sanctions had been positioned on senior safety and political figures in Iran, in addition to “the so-called morality police”.
Nonetheless, regardless of the declaration of those sanctions being made, a number of MPs within the Commons stated that they merely weren’t sufficient…
MP for Chingford and Woodford Inexperienced Iain Duncan Smith urged the consideration of taking the “prison actions” to the United Nations. Steve McCabe, MP for Selly Oak echoed this, saying Keegan ought to “take a leaf out of his e-book”.
“As a substitute of treating Ebrahim Raisi like he’s an elected head of state, what we needs to be doing is referring him to the United Nations for being a mass assassin”, adjured McCabe.
Gillian Keegan responded that she “couldn’t talk about” future actions or sanctions. This was a phrase she repeated all through the continuing, regardless of the requests of a number of MPs for readability on what shall be accomplished to additional punish the Iranian authorities.
