Starmer says UK navy will prop up illegal US-Israel war on Iran

The Starmer government has announced that the UK navy will bail out the Epstein axis’s floundering, illegal war on Iran. A statement on the official UK government website declares that because of its “deep concern about the escalating conflict”, the UK will help escalate the conflict by collaborating with the US.

The UK navy will assist the US in trying to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, along with France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Canada. The UK is therefore, entirely unsurprisingly, siding with the aggressors to prevent a sovereign state defending itself in accordance with international law.

But, Starmer being Starmer, the hypocrisy has to be ladled on. The statement also:

condemn[s] in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces.

We express our deep concern about the escalating conflict. We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the Strait to commercial shipping… Freedom of navigation is a fundamental principle of international law, including under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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The effects of Iran’s actions will be felt by people in all parts of the world, especially the most vulnerable.

Oddly, no mention is made on the page of the US’s gleefully murderous sinking of an unarmed Iranian ship in international waters, or Israel’s wanton attack on Iran’s major gas field designed to ‘escalate the conflict’ and prevent any negotiations to end the war. Or of both those countries launching their illegal war of aggression in the first place, which forced Iran to take all the measures it can to — entirely legally — defend itself.

Since Starmer is taking the side of the aggressor, those are presumably ok. Yet he and his drones continue to insist ‘we’ are not really taking an active part.

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