{"id":2595,"date":"2006-12-08T02:18:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/2595-uk-group-opposing-role-for-iran"},"modified":"2023-01-12T17:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:34:38","slug":"uk-group-opposing-role-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/uk-group-opposing-role-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"UK group opposing role for Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"corbett-nov29\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-30115\" height=\"131\" alt=\"UK group opposing role for Iran  \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2006\/12\/corbett-nov29.jpg\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>There are fears in the West over Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>BBC NEWS, December 7 &#8211; Negotiating with Iran will not work in solving Iraq&#8217;s problems, a group of British Parliamentarians has said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom supports the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which opposes the current Iranian government. <\/p>\n<p>At a London briefing the group said Iran was &quot;the major part&quot; of Iraq&#8217;s problems and called negotiating with Tehran &quot;a recipe for disaster.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Lord Corbett said: &quot;The golden rule is&#8230; don&#8217;t talk to terrorists.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The report&#8217;s suggestion followed the proposals made by Washington&#8217;s Iraq Study Group, published on Wednesday, which suggested talking to Iraq&#8217;s neighbours to solve the region&#8217;s problems. <\/p>\n<p>Deal robustly <\/p>\n<p>Lord Corbett, speaking at the press conference in the Houses of Parliament, said the West needed to &quot;deal robustly&quot; and start sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The mix of rampant fundamentalism and nuclear weapons is a lethal cocktail,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The report said neither military action nor appeasement would work when it came to dealing with Iran. <\/p>\n<p>It also suggested that the West should deal with the People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), currently blacklisted by Western governments. <\/p>\n<p>The policy report also suggested comprehensive sanctions should be imposed. <\/p>\n<p>PMOI is currently on the UK&#8217;s proscribed list of terrorist organisations.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are fears in the West over Iran&rsquo;s nuclear ambitions BBC NEWS, December 7 &ndash; Negotiating with Iran will not work in solving Iraq&rsquo;s problems, a group of British Parliamentarians [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-resistance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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