Oral answer to question provided on Tuesday, 5 June 2007 in the House of Commons, by Baroness Beckett (Labour), Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Iran
- Answer
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Sadly, in many parts of the world, cutting deals with people who are not necessarily in favour of our national interests is part of the business of conducting foreign policy
This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Tuesday, 5 June 2007 by Edward Leigh (Conservative).
- Question
- Is it not ironic that one of the many evil consequences of our invasion of Iraq is that we have merely served to increase massively the power and influence of a fundamentalist Islamic regime in the region? Is it not even more ironic that to provide a fig leaf of respectability to get us out of this mess, we have to cut a deal with people who are fundamentally opposed to our national interests?
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- 461 c130
- Session
- 2006-07
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- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Iraq Iran
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