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DEFENCE & SECURITY

UK summons Iran’s ambassador, sanctions IRGC counterespionage head

Ruhollah Bazghandi and Shahram Ali Reza Tamarzadeh Jakki face an asset freeze, a travel ban and director disqualification.

Whitehall Minute
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband speaking into a microphone beside a lectern and a Union flag
POLITICS

Jerusalem consulate becomes ‘UK Mission’ as some staff withdrawn

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says 20 diplomats, including the consul general, will leave, with seven allowed to stay in the building.

Whitehall Minute
Ed Miliband pictured in 2024
DEFENCE & SECURITY

Burnham sends RAF aircraft to refuel Saudi jets

The refuelling agreement is “time-limited” and will be kept under review, Burnham said, without setting out how long the support would last.

Whitehall Minute
A Royal Air Force Voyager tanker aircraft, the same type being sent to refuel Saudi jets, refuels two RAF Tornado jets during a previous operation over Iraq in 2015