Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

We are concerned about the situation in Iran and the wider region following the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The UK has repeatedly and consistently condemned extrajudicial killings whenever and wherever they take place and Iran is no exception. The assassination of Fakhrizadeh has not changed UK policies towards Iran, and so we continue to urge Iran to return to compliance with the JCPoA and take the important opportunity for a return to diplomacy that the incoming US Administration offers.