{"id":3498,"date":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:04:06","slug":"iran-israel-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3498","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Israel Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale&nbsp;Conservative, Maldon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been two weeks since the journalist working for&nbsp;Iran International&nbsp;was attacked on the streets of our own capital. The journalists and families of those working for&nbsp;BBC Persia Service&nbsp;live under constant threat. The organisation responsible for those acts is the&nbsp;IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), working for the Iranian regime, so will my right hon. Friend therefore look to see what further measures can be taken, including outlawing the IRGC?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rishi Sunak&nbsp;The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am happy to reassure my right hon. Friend that, as we speak, we are in active dialogue with our international partners, following yesterday\u2019s&nbsp;G7&nbsp;call, to co-ordinate further diplomatic measures to contain the threat from Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, speaks on the IRGC following the Iranian attack on Israel\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mqoqanSpwwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale&nbsp;Conservative, Maldon It has been two weeks since the journalist working for&nbsp;Iran International&nbsp;was attacked on the streets of our own capital. The journalists and families of those working for&nbsp;BBC Persia Service&nbsp;live under constant threat. The organisation responsible for those acts is the&nbsp;IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), working for the Iranian regime, so will my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}