By Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

“Silence on Tehran’s abysmal human rights record is and must not an option.”

Whether one supports the nuclear deal with Iran or not, one must accept that it is the new reality in which further Western policies toward Iran will have to operate.

By Lord Clarke of Hampstead CBE

IT appears that the recent nuclear agreement with Iran will survive, and we can only hope that the monitoring and verification will be strong enough to keep the Mullahs under intensive scrutiny to safeguard against any secret efforts to evade or undermine it.

By Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

Last month's agreement with the harsh Tehran regime over its nuclear programme may be touted by proponents as the conclusion to a decade-long dispute. But surely this optimistic assessment it is no more realistic than was the Munich Accord signed 77 years ago this month.

By Sir David Amess MP

The above title may seem like a contradiction in terms. To say that something is at once a failure and an opportunity is like saying that it is moving forward and backward at exactly the same time. But that is exactly what is happening with regard to Iran and its nuclear weapons programme.