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Well, George, you would say that. You have spent the better part of four decades saying it, in one form or another, about every regime and terror organisation that set itself against the West and against Israel. You saluted Saddam Hussein's courage and indefatigability. You glorified Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah at the Al Quds rally in London, saying it out loud and on the record. You personally handed cash and vehicles to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza in 2009, telling the assembled press conference: this is not charity, this is politics. You carried a Palestinian passport issued by Hamas. You described the October 7th massacres as a concentration camp breakout and called the terrorists who carried them out fighters. You have been photographed with Hamas leaders on multiple occasions. You built your entire political career on the Islamist-Left alliance, founding Respect with the Socialist Workers Party in what Nick Cohen accurately described as a coalition between the Trotskyist far left and the Islamic far right. Your electoral success in Rochdale was hailed as a huge victory by Nick Griffin of the BNP, which tells you everything you need to know about the political territory you now occupy. Iran's right to defend itself. Let us examine what that defence looks like. Iran built and funded Hezbollah, which has spent thirty years embedding itself in Lebanon and firing rockets into Israel. Iran built and funded Hamas, which carried out the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Iran built and funded the Houthis, who have been attacking international shipping for over a year. Iran supplied the drones and ballistic missiles Russia has been using to kill Ukrainian civilians. Iran plotted twenty assassinations on British soil in two years. Iran hit RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Iran has massacred over thirty thousand of its own citizens who dared protest against the regime. It has hanged dissidents in public, executed gay people and imprisoned women for removing their hijabs. This morning Iran fired ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK base in the Indian Ocean, revealing a missile range far exceeding what it had publicly declared, putting virtually every capital in Europe within reach. That is the regime whose right to defend itself you are asserting. You are not a defender of the oppressed, George. You are a consistent and lifelong defender of whoever happens to be pointing a weapon at the West and at Jews. The record is too long, too detailed and too thoroughly documented to be dressed up as principle. Christopher Hitchens, who knew you well, said you were one hundred per cent consistent in your support for thugs and criminals. He was right. You have not changed. The thugs and criminals have simply run out of road. "You described the October 7th massacres as a concentration camp breakout and called the terrorists who carried them out fighters. You have been photographed with Hamas leaders on multiple occasions."

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Iran is trying to impose its own legal regime and military on the Strait. The faster the UK can get off fossil fuels the better 👇🏽