{"id":1175,"date":"2015-07-06T04:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T04:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/1175-officials-say-british-arms-sales-to-the-middle-east-are-probably-fueling-is\/"},"modified":"2015-07-06T04:15:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T04:15:06","slug":"officials-say-british-arms-sales-to-the-middle-east-are-probably-fueling-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/1175-officials-say-british-arms-sales-to-the-middle-east-are-probably-fueling-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials say British arms sales to the Middle East are probably fueling IS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;\">repressive regime sales in the Middle East may be helping to fuel\u00a0the growth of ISIS<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/h4>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">British arms sales to repressive regimes in the Middle East may be helping to fuel\u00a0the growth of ISIS, a Labor leadership contender has said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Jeremy Corbyn said the availability of weapons in the region, from which British firms make billions of pounds a year, was a \u201ccontributory factor\u201d in the ongoing conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">He told a BBC Question Time audience\u00a0\u00a0that ISIS and its weapons didn\u2019t come from nowhere, adding that vast amounts of weapons have been sold to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and a number of other places and many of those end up in the hands of ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">In 2013, the Independent reported that the UK made \u00a312 billion\u00a0from arms sales to repressive regimes around the world, most of which are in the Middle east and Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>repressive regime sales in the Middle East may be helping to fuel\u00a0the growth of ISIS \u00a0 British arms sales to repressive regimes in the Middle East may be helping to fuel\u00a0the growth of ISIS, a Labor leadership contender has said. 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