Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear programme is good for the UK – but helping Israel now is not, and here’s why, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear programme is good for the UK – but helping Israel now is not, and here’s why, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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or Britain, Israel is mostly a strategic liability – but it’s also a very close ally in stopping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
Defence secretary pledges ‘Britain’s best’ to allies in the region – despite repeated insistence that the UK will not get dragged…
It is in our interest, and that of the wider West, to bring an end to the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran once and for all
Israel’s attack on Iran was an existential defence but we will all pay the price, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley
The Israeli and US attacks on Iran have brought us into a dangerous new age in which the laws of the jungle are supreme, world…
Experts have assessed the UK’s defence systems after Israel warned London was in range of Iranian missiles
Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry warned that the UK should resist being drawn into a conflict in the Middle East
