PM: Real risk of escalation in Iran Israel situation

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says, “there is a real risk of escalation” in the Middle East that will “impact the region” and calls for “negotiations” between Israel, Iran and the United States to take place. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The situation in relation to Israel, Iran is obviously fast-moving and in those circumstances

00:08it's really important to cling on to the key principles here. Obviously all of us, UK included,

00:17are very concerned about the nuclear programme that Iran is developing, long been concerned about that.

00:25Also completely recognise Israel's right to self-defence, but the principle is that we need to de-escalate this.

00:31There's a real risk of escalation here that will impact the region, possibly beyond the region, into Gaza.

00:39And obviously it's already having an impact on the economy. So I've been absolutely clear, we need to de-escalate this.

00:46Yes, the nuclear issue has to be dealt with, but it's better dealt with by way of negotiations than by way of conflict.

00:53And therefore our clear objective here is to de-escalate this situation.

00:59There have been several rounds of discussions with the US. That to me is the way to resolve this issue.

01:05So in the UK, if you have a clear objective, we need to do that.

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