Posted on 01/05/2020 2:02:09 PM PST by blam
The United Kingdom defended the actions of the Trump administration in Iran, saying the United States is “entitled to defend itself” against Iranian aggression and deploying the Royal Navy to the Persian Gulf to protect shipping vessels flying the British flag.
The Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, expressed support for America’s decision to take out Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani, citing the violence committed in Iraq by Iran-backed militias.
“During the last few months U.S. forces in Iraq, who are based in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government, have been repeatedly attacked by Iranian-backed militia”, Wallace said, in comments reported by The Telegraph.
“General Soleimani has been at the heart of the use of proxies to undermine neighbouring sovereign nations and target Iran’s enemies. Under international law the United States is entitled to defend itself against those posing an imminent threat to their citizens”, the Defence Secretary concluded.
In response to escalating tensions after the death of Soleimani, the United Kingdom has deployed the Royal Navy to the Strait of Hormuz, to protect British shipping vessels in the Persian Gulf from retaliatory strikes from Iran.
Royal Navy warships have not patrolled the strait since November, when the navy had been protecting British ships after Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero, in July of last year. The ship was finally released by Iran in September.
Trump Backs Britain: ‘Iran Is In Big Trouble’ https://t.co/RvsmBTenca
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 20, 2019
Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Dominic Raab, speaking today to the BBC, also defended the killing of Soleimani.
“My view is — and the operational assessment has been done by the Americans — is that there is a right of self-defence,” Raab said.
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Great news! I think Spain would have done so too (based on comments from friends there who realize how vital this is to the security of Spain) except that their new national government is so hard-left that it probably can’t drive on the right side of the road and this will support Spain’s historical enemy, Islam.
The left is in love with Islamic terrorism. This despite the fact that all their precious trannies and gays would have been thrown of the roofs by now, their ”feminists” would be in jail or dead and all other women would be living in virtual slavery, while their pet victim class, Africans, would be back in Islamic slavery or dead.
What lunacy impels the left’s love of Islamic dictatorships?
Yes. Quite capable ones at that.
Sailor Moon, how you’ve ah...grown!
A fantasy that they could harness the fanatical energy of Islamism and use it to empower themselves. The Cairo-Khartoum cabal was the first to suffer from this delusion, and we’ve all been living with the consequences for nearly a hundred years, and it keeps getting worse.
I heard the Japanese sent some warships to the region a week or two ago, before General Salami got blown to smithereens.
At our next family reunion, I'll poll my family about if they have yet forgiven the Limeys, for attempting to take our guns.
At some point, these two dictatorships are going to come into conflict. Islam regards itself as a political as well as a religious system. Communism regards the religious and the political as one and the same, which is why its political system suffices (as we see with their persecution of Chinese Christians, now that Pope Marxist I has betrayed them).
They’re just allies of convenience at present, both hating the US and seeing us as the main obstacle to their (conflicting) plans.
Thanks Blam. Like that concept, but I’m not sure about the landing execution there.
The US govt can’t force a DROP of most oil to be sold to them by PRIVATE US companies.
People talk like we’re a national socialist country :)
We’re not.
England shares a navy with Canada. It's call the United States Navy.
We’ve saved their butts a couple of times and some do appreciate that...
That’d be interesting.
There are 1000 brit troops stationed in the Falklands with prepared defenses and ammo stockpiles.
The Argies could take the islands but they’d have horrific casualties.
I’m guessing those would be rail gun turrets on the bow?
But, but the left was whining how Trump scared off our allies or some BS line.
Argentina’s military is a shadow of a shadow. Even as de-fanged as the RN is, I’d put my money on the Poms beating them like a redheaded rented stepchild mule (to mix the metaphors nicely).
Pretty ironic, just like the Chinese who pine for our freedoms that Liberals want to move to Chi-Com laws here.
They have known injustice and tyranny. Liberals crave it.
Nice to have our favorite ally back.
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