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@RidgeandFrost @SkyNews @WilfredFrost Where was the rule of law and institutions of international law when Iran's proxies attacked Israel on Oct 7th or when the Iranian regime murdered over 30,000 of its own in January!

Speaking about the war in Iran, Barrister Michael Mansfield KC tells @WilfredFrost, 'The rule of law and institutions of international law are being ignored; they know perfectly well this is an illegal war.' trib.al/IyMMUDw 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

@RidgeandFrost @SkyNews @SophyRidgeSky @mtpennycook And Labour are actively working against Israel so their statements need to be seen though that lens.

.@SophyRidgeSky asks @mtpennycook about Israel's claim that Iran can reach London with long-range missiles. The Labour MP said, 'Israel is an active participant in this conflict, and I think all the statements it makes need to be seen through that lens.'

Iran didn’t fire the missiles, Israel did. Israel always lies.

@KevinASchofield What's the odds Trump rubbed Starmer's nose in it!

Trump and Starmer spoke on the phone last night - shortly after Trump posted a Saturday Night Live UK sketch showing Starmer being afraid to speak to him on the phone. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-t…

@DailyMail The moral of the story is pay your tax!

Sinitta's businesses 'rack up £250K in debts' as singer faces fresh financial woes two years after 'huge tax bill' left her homeless trib.al/R3k6Vi2

“Targeting power plants for dual use follows the same logic as killing mothers because they might bear future soldiers,” said Ahmad Kiarostami, an Iranian American entrepreneur and the son of renowned director Abbas Kiarostami. “It pains me to see my adopted country apply it to my motherland.” In an online town hall discussion with more than a thousand participants on the Clubhouse app on Sunday evening, moderators offered instructions for how to prepare for a loss of power. The Iranian government has not provided its citizens with any guidance on surviving the war, and citizens say they are left to fend for themselves. “Life is becoming scarier every day,” an artist in Tehran who goes by the name Afsoon said in a text. “We are being threatened every day from all sides, from Israel and America and from the regime, and we have no idea what will happen to us.” nytimes.com/2026/03/22/wor…

@ObserverUK But it did pose a threat even it was not "imminent".

Trump had no grounds to believe Iranian regime’s nuclear programme posed ‘imminent threat’ bit.ly/4bEhD2b

@politico Presumably that means closing the straights to Iran's allies as no one else is getting through!

Iran threatens to ‘completely’ close Strait of Hormuz and hit power plants after Trump ultimatum dlvr.it/TRdsGw

It's actually complicated, not that anyone wants complexity. The JCPOA was accompanied by a UN Security Council resolution, and that resolution DID contain restrictions missiles. I will quote it in the next tweet.

“Doing the operation was a mistake. Escalating the operation is a mistake. Potentially doing the Kharg operation is a mistake” - Nate Swanson, former National Security Council Iran desk official.

@DailyMail That means nothing though.

Revealed: Migrant granted asylum in Britain after claiming he was gay has a secret wife and child in Cameroon trib.al/oVWTvP6

@politico Unlikely and now we all know that Europe is in no position to defend itself either politically or militarily in the event of a world war so will appease every terror state going.

NATO leader says he expects Europe will come together on Iran dlvr.it/TRdc4L

PETER HITCHENS: We can - and must - stand up to Donald Trump. Before this war wrecks the world... trib.al/aVVmZ6w

@JamesMelville Good job we didn't have that attitude in 1939.

Sean Bell (retired RAF fighter pilot, air vice marshall & military analyst): “The British government and certainly my understanding, the British military want to keep well clear of getting directly involved in this conflict. Because as we are seeing, it’s not a winnable war.”

@BBCPolitics They need to get more competent people to do their assessment then.

“There is no specific assessment that the Iranians are targeting the UK or even could if they wanted to” Cabinet minister Steve Reed responds to a report from the Israeli Defence Forces that the Iranian regime has “missiles that can reach London, Paris or Berlin.” #bbclaurak

@BBCNews Probably best to get some competent people in to do a proper assessment then.

No assessment Iran could strike London, UK minister says bbc.in/4lU1E4P

@polijunkie_aus What possibility exist that America can stop China if it can't stop Iran.

Counter point: if the US can not subdue Iran, what possibility exists that China will be able to subdue Taiwan?

Iran holding its best missiles back instead of taking out Israeli fighter bases and saving 1000s of its soldiers/leaders/bases/ect will be the new Russia is holding its army back after 4 years and 4K tanks and 100k+ Russians

@IntercityFC And it was a pretty pathetic attempt by Iran to attack Diego Garcia.

Iran launched missiles at Diego Garcia because someone tipped them off a British submarine maybe en route there so as to try and draw the UK into the US war against Iran.

@DominicWaghorn Iran hasn't got the capacity to successfully destroy the power plants of the gulf countries.

The Iranian govt is not going to trade the main leverage it has in this war, the Strait of Hormuz, to keep the lights on. If Trump attacks its power plants it’s just going to do the same to gulf countries. Does anyone in the White House know how to play chess?