Page 11 - TORCH Magazine #15 - February 2020

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Here are 25 reasons why CUFI believes the time has come for Britain to end the deal and take a stronger stand against the Iranian regime.
01 Threatened to kill UK troops
05 Enriched uranium to levels higher than
After the US assassinated Iran’s top terrorist general, Qasem Soleimani, in January, a senior commander in Iran’s Quds Force warned that British soldiers could be “collateral damage” in Iran’s attacks on US forces. He also threatened to level Tel Aviv and Haifa.
06 Lied to the world about shooting down
02 Arrested our UK ambassador, breaking
The world didn’t accept that the Ukrainian Airlines plane that crashed shortly after take- off on 8th January was just an accident. After denying any responsibility and refusing to allow an independent investigation, the Iranian regime finally admitted that it "unintentionally" shot the plane down killing all 176 people on board.
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07 Bullied civilian oil tankers in the Gulf
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab described the detention of the UK’s ambassador to Iran as a “flagrant violation of international law”. Ambassador Robert Macaire was accused of supporting anti-regime protests on 11 January, when in fact he was only attending a vigil to pay respects to the victims of the Ukrainian Airlines plane that was shot down, some of whom were British citizens.
The Royal Navy is now leading the international effort of seven nations to protect shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. One Royal Navy destroyer faced off against Iranian forces 115 times in a two month period as Iranian forces attempted to illegally seize and intimidate oil tankers and merchant ships travelling in the area. Ships passing through this busy shipping route are now required to travel in convoy with military protection because of the threat of Iran.
03 Unlawfully imprisoned UK
citizens
There are currently three British citizens imprisoned in Iran. One of those is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian mother who has been detained in Iran since 3 April 2016. In early September that year she was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on trumped up charges of “espionage” whilst visiting family with her young daughter.
08 Illegally captured and held a British oil
04 Breached the Iran nuclear deal
In July 2019, Iran captured a UK-flagged tanker, the Stena Impero, in the Strait of Hormuz and held its 23 crew members. The tanker, which Iran falsely accused of violating maritime regulations, was finally released after two months; one month after the release of a Syria-bound Iranian vessel in the Strait of Gibraltar that was in breach of international sanctions.
In January, Britain, France and Germany finally triggered the dispute resolution mechanism (DRM) in response to Iran’s repeated breaches of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA), otherwise known as the Iran Deal. This sends a clear message to the Iranian regime that its multiple breaches of the deal will not be tolerated. Over 11,000 people have signed a CUFI UK petition calling on the British government to withdraw from the deal. Find out more at www.cufi.org.uk/OperationMordecai
09 Coordinated terror attacks across
before deal
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said in January that the country is now enriching more uranium than it was before the 2015 deal with world powers that was supposed to scale back its nuclear activities, and in particular enrichment. “We are enriching more uranium than before the deal was reached,” Rouhani said.
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Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of international terrorism. General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the US in January, was responsible for the killing of hundreds of American forces. He was the military commander overseeing the terrorist group