Minister: UK focus is getting Iran back to negotiating table

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Armed forces minister Luke Pollard would not be drawn on whether he thought US strikes on Iran were legal but instead reiterated the government’s “focus” of “getting Iran back to the negotiating table”. 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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00:00Well, I think the US and the UK share the same ambition here. We want to see Iran end their

00:06nuclear weapons programme, to return to the negotiating table and to find a path to a future

00:12that sees them without a nuclear bomb and returning to peaceful relations with their neighbours. That's

00:18not where we've been so far. The UK did not participate in the US strikes and we have not

00:24been involved in the Israeli strikes against Iran either. Our focus in the past few weeks and

00:31especially in this week is about getting Iran back to the negotiating table, building that

00:37international chorus of voices that sees Iran under incredible diplomatic pressure to return

00:45to the negotiating table and to end their nuclear weapons programme.

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