David Lammy was unable to elucidate the government’s position on Donald Trump’s recent comments on Iran during an interview with the Today Programme. The Deputy PM repeatedly said it is for the US and Israel to set out their war aims. Here they are…
He said:
“Clearly regime change from the air I don’t think has been succeeded anywhere in the world… it is for the US and Israel to set out their war aims… we believe that diplomacy was taking its course… if you believe in democracy… of course we believe it is for the Iranian people to determine who leads their country.”
Lammy is saying he had better knowledge of the state of negotiations than the Americans there. Action from the air is even harder when you block your closest ally from using its main staging bases in the region…
On BBC Breakfast he added that the UK could mount defensive strikes aimed at Iranian missile sites. Which should have been the position from the start…
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