Conservative Party ‘supports’ US bombing in Iran

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Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge says the Conservative Party “supports” US air strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, saying a country that shows “support to terrorists is not one that should have nuclear weapons”. 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, we support this action because, as we've been clear right from the outset,

00:04Iran with a fully-fledged nuclear weapons program is something we cannot countenance.

00:10If you look at it in terms of the fact that those terrorists like the Houthis

00:14have attacked not just international shipping but the British Navy in the Red Sea,

00:20arrived by ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to the Houthis,

00:23a country that's willing to do that to support terrorists is not one that should have nuclear weapons.

00:28The thing to stress about this sort of action is there is no risk-free route to dealing with something like a program, right?

00:34If you do nothing, there is a risk because they may continue to develop nuclear weapons,

00:39which ultimately, who knows how that could end.

00:41They've been off the face of the earth. As I said, they support terrorist groups.

00:45And who knows what they would do with their nuclear weapons materials.

00:48But in terms of if you're an isolator, et cetera, that's something we've just got to be conscious of.

00:53And something I'd particularly like to see is strength and security at military bases at home and abroad.

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