Polanski urges Starmer to sentence Trump’s ‘unlawful’ strikes on Iran | UK | News | EUROtoday

The chief of the Green Party has condemned strikes on Iran by Israel and the US, calling them “illegal and unprovoked”. Zack Polanski mentioned it’s “astounding” that Keir Starmer is “incapable” of standing as much as Donald Trump.

Saturday morning, strikes started in Tehran in an try to alter the regime, with the Israeli spy company, Mossad, calling for an rebellion on X (previously Twitter). The supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a strike on his compound. Trump introduced this on social media with out proof, with state media later confirming it.

Preliminary figures are that 201 are useless and 747 have been injured, together with 153 killed in a strike on a faculty. Trump mentioned in an tackle that the strikes had been to defend the US from “imminent threats” from Iran, calling them “a vicious group of very hard, terrible people”. He claimed Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons and missile programs that would attain the US. While on BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Polanski mentioned he’s “worried” that, if Starmer can’t stand as much as Trump, the UK could possibly be pulled into one other unlawful battle just like the Iraq War in 2003.

“We’ve seen what I would say is an illegal and unprovoked attack,” Polanski mentioned. “We’ve got a Defence Secretary saying that diplomacy is the long runway we need but won’t condemn Donald Trump when he attacks a country and assassinates its leader.

“That’s the law of the jungle. That’s an end to international law. It’s quite astounding that we have a Prime Minister that seems singularly incapable of standing up to Donald Trump and letting the UK stand on its own two feet, and I’m worried the UK is going to be pulled into another illegal war.”

The UK Defence Secretary, John Healey, repeatedly refused to say if the US and Israel’s strikes towards Iran had been authorized, saying: “It’s for the US to explain the legal basis they’re operating on.”

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The chief of the Green Party mentioned he has seen “no evidence” that the UK took diplomacy and negotiation with Iran critically. He mentioned: “The moment you’ve ruled out negotiation, you’ve accepted that you’re going to war, and I don’t think the British people want to see another war in that region.”

“The question becomes: how do you make diplomacy and negotiation work? What I know is negotiation was happening, whether it was working or not is a legitimate question, but I don’t think the answer can be, it’s not working, so we’re going to bomb and kill them, the answer has to be: how do we work harder to make it work, including third countries to use to de-escalate?

“I’ve seen no evidence that the UK was really taking that process seriously, because part of the start of that would be to call out Donald Trump and Israel. There is only one region in that area with a nuclear weapon, and that’s Israel.”