Jeremy Corbyn’s right about Iran, isn’t he? On the attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, he tweeted (and don’t you just wish politicians could use a more considered medium?):
‘Britain should act to ease tensions in the Gulf, not fuel a military escalation that began with US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement. Without credible evidence about the tanker attacks, the government’s rhetoric will only increase the threat of war.’
What, precisely, is wrong about that? What exactly about it caused the Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to call him ‘pathetic’ and ‘predictable’? Hunt himself didn’t exactly follow the US party line in announcing Iran was to blame for the attacks initially. He instead qualified it a teeny bit by saying he thought the US intelligence assessment blaming Iran was ‘correct’, but the UK would also investigate. The
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