VoteClimate: Iran - 16th October 2017

Iran - 16th October 2017

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Iran.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-10-16/debates/CB6656F4-3663-4BDD-9083-644A983670FB/Iran

15:44 Emily Thornberry (Labour)

Let us make it clear that when Donald Trump talks about the deal needing to be fixed, that is utterly disingenuous, when the only evidence that it is in any way broken is a figment of his fevered brain. Yet sadly this behaviour is what we have come to expect of this President. Some of us in the House have been sounding these warnings from day one of his presidency, whether over climate change, human rights or the Iran nuclear deal. When we raised those fears in the House, what did the Foreign Secretary say? He said that I was being “too pessimistic”. He told us that his strategy of hugging the President close—inviting him to meet the Queen, holding his hand when needs be—was the way to wield influence. Specifically on the Iran deal, the Foreign Secretary stood at the Dispatch Box seven months ago and said that I had simply got it wrong on the Iran deal. He said:

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