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Shivaun Quinlivan

@shepersisted4.bsky.social
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Shivaun Quinlivan Professor in Law, Uni of Galway Blackrock swimmer #WIASN (she/her)

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The Times of Israel @timesofisrael.com · 26/09/2026
Ireland’s back-up goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has indicated that he was not prepared to take part in the soccer match against Israel amid signs that the team was in turmoil a day before the game and the prospect that other players could follow. Read more: www.timesofisrael.com/irish-player...
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Helen Heery @hheery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well it looks like it wasn't to be. We never asked for a charitable donation.... This is tone deaf. We want a stand. We want courage. To say I'm gutted is an understatement. www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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Irish squad vote in favour of fulfilling Israel fixtures
The Republic of Ireland squad have voted in favour of fulfilling Sunday's UEFA Nations League fixture away to Israel, the FAI confirmed at a press conference in Debrecen in Hungary this afternoon.
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A shameful day for Irish sport and Irish soccer in particular. We laying this game lends support to an ongoing genocide. Shame on the @fai.bsky.social the players should not have been put in this position, that said shame on them too. (Accepting that some voted not to play)
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This story is so awful ... there is a cruelty to it - is this what you now stand for @fiannafailparty.bsky.social and @fine-gael.bsky.social ? - www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
irishtimes.com
Minister opposes Gaza student’s challenge over refusal of visa to study at Trinity
Student who got fully-funded five-year scholarship is among more than 100 denied visas
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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What the absolute fuck is this line of questioning by Justin Webb? It’s worse than pure grandstanding; it’s querying Miliband’s faith.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I find it pretty disgusting that these ‘leaders’ see an open ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians done by illegal settlers and their reaction was to claim - baselessly - that doing the bare minimum according to international law would put British Jews at risk. It’s just a lie.
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Environmental Protection Agency Ask Government To Remove 'Environmental' & 'Protection' From Title If They're Just Going To Ignore Them loom.ly/geH7WzU
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Now feels like a good time to share that the mean gender bonus gap in the GAA is 47.2%, and that I only know that recently because their pay gap report was MONTHS late. Metadata in the PDF suggests it was created in May of this year. The deadline was November last year...
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The 42 @the42.ie · 08/09/2026
Fine Gael senator Evanne Ní Chuilinn has strongly criticised the GAA following Mary McAleese's decision to step down as the Gaelic games integration chairperson 'If any other organisation decided to behave like this way in relation to women, they would not get away with it.' jrnl.ie/7156278t
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Mary McAleese resigns from GAA's integration committee over its refusal to stick to 2027 date
The GAA reportedly told the steering committee it could not commit to the 2027 timeline.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Whatever Jason Arday did or didn’t do, the unrelenting bullying by the media, by the race baiters, by the far right, hounded him to death. Will they learn any lesson … will they what! They and their hate filled little souls will move on, without a thought or any regret, to the next target.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/08/2026
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
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Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops Firefighters and residents of south Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of lighting wildfires in the region, as forested areas burned down in blazes sparked by Israeli bombing. Environmental groups said the fires in recent weeks were part of a longstanding Israeli practice of targeting Lebanon’s natural environment. Continue reading...
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is one year since apartheid Israel murdered the courageous Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif, one of hundreds of Palestinian journalists it has killed, with total impunity. There must be accountability. #GazaGenocide Remembering Anas, Mohammed and Gaza’s other slain journalists aje.news/q25bpn
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Remembering Anas, Mohammed and Gaza’s other slain journalists
Our colleagues in Gaza have taken the journalism profession to an unseen level. In doing so, they've paid a heavy price.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
‘Then there was the casual, almost Muskian, manner in which minister Jack Chambers disbanded the climate division in the Department of Public Expenditure. In other words, the man holding the purse strings on big projects does not need any environmental inputs on their effects or improvement.’
independent.ie
The great green retreat: Is this Government done with trying to save the planet?
From pausing the carbon tax to scrapping the Dublin Airport passenger cap, the Taoiseach insists Coalition’s ‘pragmatic’ approach is the way forward while the Greens argue ministers are ‘defunding the...
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 05/08/2026
👉NEW -- UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding by Martin Williams Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers www.declassifieduk.org/uk-charities...
declassifieduk.org
UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding
Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers
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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"The not-for-profit company paid out total compensation of €700,000 to Foley and private sector executives from Coca-Cola HBC Ireland, Britvic, Heineken, Musgrave and Diageo who sit on its board": Coca Cola, number 1 plastics polluter/ no bio for board on website www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
irishtimes.com
Re-Turn chief executive and board share six-figure pay rise
Body formed to manage deposit return scheme has faced political pressure to disclose remuneration to chief executive Ciarán Foley
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 29/07/2026
The wildfire in Tipperary covered 700 hectares. The smoke could be smelled 100km away at Cork Airport. Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael have spent the summer setting the climate act aside, saying it has been "weaponised" by NGOs.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Judicial review is a fundamental part of democracy. Why does our government attack it? www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
irishexaminer.com
Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers
A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Jack Chambers attacking both the rule of law and civil society. As Europe literally burns - he wants to circumvent Ireland's climate laws. Shocking statements www.thejournal.ie/jack-chamber...
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Chambers claims climate law has been 'weaponised' by NGOs to halt infrastructure projects
Friends of the Earth have said disapplying climate laws sets ‘an alarming precedent’.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We cannot agree to sanctioning Israel. - Chancellor Merz, today, Dublin.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The European Union stands with Israel.
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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this, but "judicial review" is literally just the name you give a case when a person says the State has broken a law (any law, about anything) and they want a court to put a stop to it. A politician saying "I am against anyone taking a judicial review" is proto-fascist.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Minister attacks Court oversight under the Constitution. Dangerous.
Deputy Jack Chambers
I am against all judicial reviews whether
it is environmentalists. landowners or
anybody in the economy. When a decision is made by An Coimisiún Pleanála, we need to allow it to be built and respected. We have seen the enormous deference to allowinc this system and industry of iudicial reviews to build up. It is undermining delivery systems right across the board. I am against and owners taking iudicial reviews. I am against developers taking judicial reviews, I am against anybody taking judicial reviews out. I respect the statutory process and appeals systems that we have.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Minister outraged at people applying laws his government is bound to respect.
thejournal.ie
Chambers claims climate law has been 'weaponised' by NGOs to halt infrastructure projects
Friends of the Earth have said disapplying climate laws sets ‘an alarming precedent’.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It is so hard to understand the current leadership at the EU’s — as well as so many EU governments — active decision to abandon their obligations and moral duty in the face of such suffering and injustice. - Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social
irishexaminer.com
Shona Murray: The EU imposed has sanctions on Russia, yet they fail to do so on Israel
This week the EU rightfully proudly announced the passage of the 21st sanctions package against Russia. Yet the banning trade with Israeli settlements has yet to happen
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Excellent post.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 04/06/2026
The lessons are clear. People are looking to get rid of FF-FG, and the left needs to give them a clear alternative. We need commitments NOT to go into government with FF-FG, combined with clear left principles on housing, cost of living, climate, etc. to offer a clear choice at the next election.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 28/05/2026
The Dail has heard of a "small number" of former ministers who have yet to agree a recoupment plan to address a mismatch between their pension contributions and the amount actually given. €62,000 was overpaid to those people, Jack Chambers said. All current ministers have agreed a recoupment plan.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 28/05/2026
Ivana Bacik proposal to SocDems and Greens to come together to negotiate with FF/FG is simply an invitation to repeat the same old mistakes of Labour. It would be a disaster. People want rid of FF/FG, not to prop them up. All on left should rule out coalition with FF/FG. #VoteLeftTransferLeft
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"To know that the Irish Government voted not to put sanctions on the Israeli regime, while we were getting tortured in a prison ship, in the Mediterranean Sea, for multiple days … that is just unacceptable for us," he said. www.rte.ie/news/2026/05...
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Flotilla member describes 'sheer brutality' when detained
An Irish man who was on the flotilla Global Sumud Flotilla, said there is a sense of relief for those who were onboard but also a "realisation of what has happened".
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“Italy and Europe stand exposed in their moral bankruptcy. Despite Albanese being an Italian national, the Meloni government … offered her no support, while continuing military and economic cooperation with the genocidal regime. The broader European Union has chosen complicity over conscience.”
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 13/05/2026
The SocDems’ Jennifer Whitmore has broken down in tears during a Dáil debate about widening access to abortion in Ireland. TDs will vote this evening on removing the 72-hour waiting period for abortion within 12 weeks, and removing the 28-day limit applying to cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Once a gobsh*te, always a gobsh*te www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
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Bertie Ahern on video: Ireland has 'too many immigrants'; 'I worry about Africans'
A video, which appeared to be taken during a by-election canvass in Dublin Central, was shared on social media
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
www.independent.ie/regionals/ga...
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Nelson Mandela Foundation reviewing ties with University of Galway over links to Israeli institution
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is reviewing the use of Nelson Mandela’s name by the University of Galway following controversy surrounding the university’s ongoing links with an Israeli institution.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Updated Statement on Government Response to Fossil Fuel Blockades. The government is failing to deliver a Just Transition and instead binding us to further fossil dependency and vulnerability - ignoring climate, health and economic science. It is time to act now. (6 images, contd in replies)
Statement from Irish Doctors for the Environment regarding Government response to fossil fuel blockades: Our government's response to a week of fuel blockades is wholly inadequate and entirely misses the crux of the issue. The announcement of a €505 million relief package, comprised largely of fossil fuel tax cuts against the advice of the ESRI and International Energy Agency. Without any accompanying roadmap to accelerate the energy transition away from fossil fuels, this represents a serious failure of leadership at a critical moment.

Ireland's transport, haulage, and agriculture sectors are the backbone of this economy. They deserve genuine, evidence-based support on a pathway toward clean, energy-independent, and socially just operations, not merely short-term placation that deepens dependence on volatile global fossil fuel markets.

This is not a just transition. It is a missed opportunity.

Last week's crisis must become the catalyst for urgent, systemic reform. We call on the government to act immediately on measures that are proven, deliverable, and transformative:

Immediate fossil phase-out planning: publication, within 2026, of a long-term, cross-sector roadmap to phase out fossil fuels in Ireland.

Legislative recognition of farmers as key stewards of the land who must be supported by evidence-based measures in their role of protecting food security and Irish biodiversity. 

Legislative recognition of biodiversity and nature as essential to human health and wellbeing as evidenced by medical researchRooftop solar and community energy: Accelerate grants and grid connection for rooftop solar on homes, farms, and commercial premises. Empower communities to generate and own their own energy, reducing exposure to global price shocks at source. 
This should encompass broad expansion of eligibility criteria for retrofitting and solar panel grants that ensure equitable energy access for all

Transition to agroecological farming and forestry: Financial incentives and institutional support to farmers to shift to agroecological methods, especially to fresh produce, which would entail the following benefits:
increase our food security by significantly reducing our reliance on imports
incur far less energy demand
eliminate the need for further nitrogen derogations
vastly improve the ecological state of our languishing waterways, 1 in 2 of which are currently deemed to be in a poor stateElectrification and clean fuel transition for transport: 
Accelerate EV adoption for private motorists and light commercial vehicles 
Increasing and incentivising the zero-emission heavy duty vehicles (ZEHDV) grant scheme to align with commitment to reach a minimum of 30% of all new Medium and Heavy-Duty Vehicle sales (bus and truck) to be zero-emission by 2030.

Active and public transport investment: Urgently expand cycling infrastructure, pedestrianise town centres, and fund frequent, coherent, affordable, rural and intercity public transport. Reducing car dependency is both a climate and an energy security measure. Plans should align with, and even exceed, the Climate Action Plan 2023, which aims to deliver by 2030:
50% increase in daily active travel journeys relative to 2022
130% increase in daily public transport journeys
20% reduction in total vehicle kilometres travelled
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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Will be lying across our bóithrín until the Government agrees to buy €500 million worth of my prints
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Galway - the city of cars!!!
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“An act of insanity” – Irish Doctors for Environment verdict on Galway Ring Road
Irish Doctors for Environment have slammed the decision by An Coimisiún Pleanála to approve planning permission for Galway’s Ring Road.
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Claudio Francavilla @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
EU ministers who “don’t want #Lebanon to become the second #Gaza” shouldn’t forget it’s their slogans and inaction that allowed the first one to happen. It’s beyond time to move from words to action, suspend the 🇪🇺-🇮🇱Association Agreement 👉🏼 euobserver.com/210469/eu-sa... @kajakallas.bsky.social
euobserver.com
EU sanctions back on agenda amid Israel’s ‘carnage’ in Lebanon
"Bodies on the ground. Blood everywhere ... countless wounded adults and children" in Beirut after Israeli strikes, but its EU allies say Israel "blame game" would not help.
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Simon @sociuscriminis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Through Ireland's failure to enact the Occupied Territories Bill, our government are aiding this regime also.
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
And still we trade! Forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, genocide, illegal wars - none of these breaches of international law enough to force @fiannafailparty.bsky.social or @finegael.bsky.social to enact the OTB
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Remember folks - there are no lessons to be learnt here at all for Irish cities whatsoever. Now, let's all sit here for another 15 years as we wait on major public transport builds.
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The current fuel crisis highlights how wise this course of action was. Also highlights how inadequate Galway City Council are - the city of cars!
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Welcome to Galway City Council
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Le Monde: Irish neutrality, long seen as a guarantee of independence from the former British colonizer, is crumbling under European and Atlantic pressures.
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L’Irlande, maillon faible de la défense européenne
La neutralité irlandaise, longtemps perçue comme garante de l’indépendance face à l’ancien colonisateur britannique, s’effrite sous les pressions européennes et atlantiques. Après des décennies d’impu...
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Tomorrow Tuesday
irishexaminer.com
Cork-born Lelia Doolan, 91, to walk from Shannon to Dublin in protest over US military use of airport
Veteran activist embarks on a 16-day journey to highlight concerns over Ireland’s neutrality and US military stopovers
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Lelia Doolan (91) begins her walk from Shannon to Dublin tomorrow in protest at US military use of Shannon Airport. Meanwhile in Madrid -
irishexaminer.com
Spain says it has closed its airspace to US planes involved in Iran war
Spain had already said the US could not use jointly operated military bases in the Iran conflict, which Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has described as illegal, reckless and unjust
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What if you could just say any old codswallop and they’d put it in the paper without even the crying laughing emoji in the headline.
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Shivaun Quinlivan @shepersisted4.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
And Ireland continues to trade with Israel. It is hard to express how disappointing both @fiannafailparty.bsky.social and @finegael.bsky.social are in government. They talk about international law but fail to uphold the genocide convention.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“The export of war materiel to countries involved in the international armed conflict with Iran cannot be authorised for the duration of the conflict”. Switzerland halts approvals for weapons exports to the US amid the ongoing Israeli-US war on Iran 👇 www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
aljazeera.com
Switzerland halts weapons exports to US amid Iran war
Weapons 'cannot be authorised for the duration of ⁠the ​conflict', says government after more than 1,000 killed in Iran.
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