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Why ceasefire deal with US has unsettled Iran's hardliners

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The two-week truce opens up the prospect of direct talks with the US but has angered Iran's hardliners, writes BBC News Persian's Kasra Naji.

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CHAMBERLAIN FACES REVOLT OVER DEAL

Continued from page one) volt openly against the compromise when parliament meets. There were indications that Chamberlain might agree to summon parliament after he returns from his second meeting with Hitler. The revolt probably would be staged on the issue of further British commitments in Europe, such as are envisaged under the Czech settlement calling for guarantees of the inviolability of Czechoslovakia's revised frontiers. Those prominent in agitation for the parliamentary revolt claimed to possess knowledge that the terms of the Anglo-French surrender are even more generous than Hitler demanded in his conference with Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden last week. They said that Hitler, having received unasked for concessions, might use the surrender as a mere stepping-stone for more extravagant demands. Chamberlain, it was said, has learned of the threatened revolt in parliament.

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The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.), September 20, 1938 — front page Enlarge →

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Duff Cooper resigns from Cabinet over Munich Agreement

He resigned from the cabinet over the Munich Agreement of 1938, the only Cabinet minister to do so. His resignation speech in the House of Commons was widely praised as a devastating critique of Chamberlain's appeasement policy.

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A total and unmitigated defeat

Signed five days earlier by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, the agreement met the demands of Nazi Germany in respect of the Czechoslovak region of Sudetenland. Churchill spoke for 45 minutes to criticise the government for signing the agreement and, in general, for its policy of appeasement. The speech officially ended Churchill's support for the government's appeasement policy.

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Norway Debate

The Norway Debate, sometimes called the Narvik Debate, was a momentous debate in the British House of Commons from 7 to 9 May 1940, during the Second World War. The debate quickly brought to a head widespread dissatisfaction with the overall conduct of the war by Neville Chamberlain's government. At

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