Majlis Ratifies Emergency Of Bill On Reducing Ties With UK

Tehran, Nov 23, IRNA – Iranian parliament on Wednesday ratified emergency of a two-star bill which entails reducing of ties with Britain. The bill received 162 votes in favor from among 198 votes cast by Majlis deputies. Head of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Majlis Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Majlis considered the bill in response to the recent UK decision to exercise sanctions against Iran’s Central Bank (Bank Markazi). Noting that the history of UK policies towards Iran in years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution is full of treachery and crime, he said that Britain undoubtedly had a hand in all the crimes committed by Americans in Iran even before the 1979 revolution. He said Iran regarded the UK as a major element behind anti-Iran human rights resolutions, barring Iran from gaining access to its inalienable peaceful nuclear rights, excluding the terrorist Mojahedeen-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from the list of terrorist groups and assisting Saddam Hussein during the imposed war against Iran. Broujerdi further pointed out that the UK was the standard-bearer of unlawful sanctions imposed on Iran and said given all these facts it is not either acceptable or logical to continue ties with such a country. The parliamentarian further asked the Iranian foreign minister to expel the British ambassador from Iran because of its hostile policies against the country. He said it was not right to have relations with the UK in the present circumstances./end