(Jewish News) Middle East minister Hamish Falconer has insisted the UK government remains “clear-eyed” about the threat the Iranian regime poses to British Jews in this country, adding this is one reason why Tehran now faces the reimposition of sweeping new sanctions.
Speaking to Jewish News after the UK, Germany and France confirmed they would impose sanctions and other restrictive measures on Iran in 30 days unless committed to diplomacy around its nuclear programme, Falconer also said he had been “crystal clear” to his Iranian counterparts that the safety of UK Jewry was this government’s “foremost priority.”
He added that if Iran now decided to further threaten or harm British nationals in this country, “we will respond with the seriousness that that deserves as and when we see that threat emerge.”
