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James Cartlidge, Shadow Defence Secretary, says his party "supports" the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, and claims the Tories "regard it ultimately as self defence" to end Iran's nuclear capability. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So my understanding is that the U.S. wants to remove the Iranian nuclear program and their ability to have
00:06one.
00:07And I think that's a goal that we share. It's actually, supposedly, a goal that the U.K. government shares,
00:13but obviously a bit all over the place at the moment.
00:15But we think that is absolutely critical because, first of all,
00:19when a regime is willing to kill thousands of its own people to murder them in the streets,
00:23you wouldn't want them to have a nuclear weapon,
00:24and especially when they are willing to throw these weapons around the whole region in such wanton abandon
00:30and putting so many other countries at risk.
00:33Well, from our point of view, we've been very clear about the nuclear threat.
00:36It's totally unacceptable. So that's why we supported the action.
00:39We regard it ultimately as self-defense because, clearly,
00:42if Iran isn't going to cooperate with these negotiations, which it would look like it didn't,
00:45then it is threatening us if it is going to develop nuclear capability.
00:49That is the top priority.
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