UK service personnel facing ‘acute security threats’ in Middle East – Swinney - video Dailymotion

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Service personnel and others from the UK are facing “acute security threats” amid the conflict in the Middle East, John Swinney has said as he reiterated calls for a diplomatic solution.Scotland’s First Minister said the US-Israeli attack on Iran at the weekend is “not compatible with an international rules-based system” and that the whole world is facing a “very grave situation” as a result.

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00:04I'm deeply concerned by the situation in the Middle East. I think the original intervention

00:09by the United States and Israel is not compatible with an international rules-based system and

00:15as a consequence of all of that we now see that people from this country, service personnel

00:22from this country are now facing acute security threats as a consequence of that intervention.

00:29And the world as a whole is facing a very grave situation, so the need for us to move to

00:36a diplomatic solution immediately is absolutely critical.

UK service personnel facing ‘acute security threats’ in Middle East – Swinney

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