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Baroness Foster of Oxton (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 February 2026

Debate

Iran

Contribution

My Lords, I echo and support the comments made by my noble friend on the Front Bench. For clarification, approximately 35,000 unarmed civilians have been slaughtered already in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the figures for injuries run at about 350,000, so we are not talking about 3,000 victims here; we are talking about very many indeed. The last Government proscribed Hizb ut-Tahrir. I therefore say to the noble Baroness that that, clearly, was a difficult thing to do as well, so I cannot for the life of me see what additional complications there could be to proscribing the IRGC.

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