The shadow foreign secretary has said the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facillities were "absolutely necessary". Priti Patel said: "I've maintained for a long while now even when I was in government that Iran is a threat to our country." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00So this action was absolutely necessary. There's no question about that. I've maintained for a long while now, even when I was in government, that Iran is a threat to our country.
00:08And when it comes to our national security and securing our country and British people and our equities, it's right that we work with our allies.
00:16This was almost, as we've seen from everything in the last week or so, President Trump was saying, and he made a clear warning basically to the Iranians, that if they did not start talking, that this action would follow. And he's made that decision.
