Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 23 May 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Patrick Mercer. The answering member was Ian McCartney.

Iran (External Involvement)

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on Iranian involvement in Iraq and other theatres of war.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 460 c429-50WH
Session: 2006-07
Department: Department of Trade and Industry
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions: Patrick Mercer | 460 c429-30WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to have you in the Chair, Mr. O’Hara, and I thank you for indulging this subject. T...; Keith Simpson | 460 c445-8WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr. O’Hara, for the opportunity to reply on behalf of my party. I congratulate ...; Ian McCartney | 460 c448-50WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. O’Hara. We had a debate on 25 April—my birthday, so there was at lea...; Andrew Mackinlay | 460 c445WH (Link to this contribution) I am impatient to know how and at what stage the hon. Gentleman intends to demonstrate some criticis...; Mark Hunter | 460 c445WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful intervention. He is well aware from the comments that my...; Mark Hunter | 460 c444-5WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman hears the rest of my argument, he will realise that I do not accept the curren...; Lee Scott | 460 c430WH (Link to this contribution) The vile regime in Iran has no regard for its innocent citizens, who want no part in what is going o...; Patrick Mercer | 460 c444WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely take the hon. Gentleman’s point and follow the direction from which his rhetoric comes....; David Gauke | 460 c441-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer) on initiating this debate. It i...; Mark Hunter | 460 c443-4WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer) for securing the debate, especially in the conte...; Andrew Mackinlay | 460 c437-8WH (Link to this contribution) I subscribe to those views. It is also interesting that the American commanders of the coalition for...; Bernard Jenkin | 460 c438-41WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer) on securing this timely debate....; Andrew Mackinlay | 460 c435-7WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate because during a half-hour debate in this Chamber on 25 April there were, as h...; Roger Gale | 460 c437WH (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the PMOI and its associated organisations have never participated in any ter...; Patrick Mercer | 460 c434-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention, and I agree with him entirely. That is precisely th...; Speaker | 460 c435WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind hon. Members that the Front-Bench contributions should start not later than 10.30.; Andrew Mackinlay | 460 c433WH (Link to this contribution) Following our debate in this Chamber on 25 April, the Minister wrote to my hon. Friend the Member fo...; Ian McCartney | 460 c433-4WH (Link to this contribution) I do not normally intervene, but I must put something on the record. The letter that I sent via the ...; Patrick Mercer | 460 c434WH (Link to this contribution) I should say to the hon. Member for Thurrock that the debate in which he, the Minister and I took pa...; Bernard Jenkin | 460 c432WH (Link to this contribution) I saw the Minister shaking his head in confusion at that last point, so will my hon. Friend expand o...; Patrick Mercer | 460 c432-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention. The messages that this country sent out were extrao...; Bernard Jenkin | 460 c433WH (Link to this contribution) May I draw my hon. Friend’s attention to the fact that the US Administration are also split on the q...; Patrick Mercer | 460 c433WH (Link to this contribution) As usual, I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I agree with what he says, and that was exactly the point...; Patrick Mercer | 460 c430-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend; as usual, he makes a very good and articulate point. He underlines ...; Roger Gale | 460 c434WH (Link to this contribution) Earlier in his speech, my hon. Friend said that many millions of ordinary, decent people in Iran are...
Subjects: Armed forces Armed conflict Arms trade Iraq Foreign relations Terrorism Weapons Afghanistan Iran
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Iran (External Involvement)

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