Jack Straw
Jack Straw
John Whitaker Strawis an English politician who served as the Member of Parliamentfor Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. Straw served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001 and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout Brown's...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 August 1946
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We look to the Iranian government to sit down with us, hear what we have to say and take action where appropriate.
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The Russian Federation have the same aim as the rest of the international community, ... Foreign Minister Lavrov is on record as saying that the Russian Federation does not wish the government of Iran to develop or acquire a nuclear weapons capability. That is the same approach as we have. What we're now working out is the appropriate tactics to achieve that.
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have worked very hard for two years to resolve this difficult issue. The only way to resolve it is diplomatically. But the Iranian president has offered nothing in this speech to suggest that he wants to abide by the agreement Iran has made.
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I am in no doubt at all that our policy of engagements with the government of Iran ... is the best approach,
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No one is talking about invading Iran or taking military action against Iran.
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We also believe that elements of the Iranian regime may have been involved more directly in planning,
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It's a self-evident truth that if we're able to get a broad consensus with Russia and China, it strengthens the international community's hand with the Iranians on this dossier,
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That is the evidence. We look to the Iranians to desist from anything that they have been involved in the past, and also to use their very considerable influence with Hezbollah to ensure that this continued use of Hezbollah technology stops in Iraq,
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The fact that Iran asked for these discussions this morning - they are not negotiations - illustrated the fact that Iran is concerned about its international position.
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We should take stock on Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks, ... This might also be an opportunity to discuss what Iran's new government and its breaking of the Paris Agreement means for EU-Iran relations over the coming months.
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We should take stock of Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks,
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We have looked at the letter very carefully. The Iranians are under an obligation to respond positively to the resolution of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency ... and we look to them to do that,
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This is about the whole of the international community, there is a board of the International Atomic Energy Agency where it has decided on seven successive occasions unanimously that Iran must bring itself in to full compliance with its own obligations, which have been there for years and years, for complete transparency under the Non Proliferation Treaty.
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I say this on behalf of the EU3 (Britain, France and Germany): We do not wish to see Iran referred to the Security Council.