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  • Dirty dossier exposes Britain’s involvement in Iran war as illegal

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dossier-burnham-starmer-iran-war-illegal

    The Prime Minister and Keir Starmer need to come clean about whether they have put UK citizens at risk by participating in Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war against Iran

    Britain’s role in the Iran war has been branded potentially unlawful by legal experts, fuelling demands for ministers to reveal what evidence justified allowing US forces to use UK bases

    BRITAIN’S involvement in the Iran war is unlawful, legal experts have said, raising concerns that a new “dodgy dossier” compelled Sir Keir Starmer into the disastrous Middle East conflict.

    A legal opinion by law firm Leigh Day concluded that there were serious grounds to question whether Britain is facilitating unlawful military action.

    In March, the US and Israel attacked Iran without telling their allies, sending global fuel prices soaring — with no end to the war in sight.

    Then-PM Sir Keir was criticised by US President Donald Trump after refusing his demands to allow the US to use British bases for the initial wave of attacks.

    A day later, the Labour leader said that he had been moved to allow the “limited” use of British military bases for so-called defensive operations. Sir Keir told MPs that he had been guided by law and the “national interest” following retaliatory strikes by Iran.

    The legal opinion states: “We have been advised that there is an argument that the US’s status as the aggressor in the conflict means that any operations justified on the basis of collective self-defence are likely to fail to meet the necessity criterion. 

    “This is because the US need not conduct defensive strikes in response to the armed attacks on the Gulf states: it could bring Iran’s attacks on the Gulf states to an end by ceasing its own military action against Iran.

    “If this is right, the US has no right under international law to act in defence of the Gulf states, and the UK’s purported justification for the US’s use of UK bases entirely falls away.”

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    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister. He asks who could possibly object to the IDF starving people to death, conducting forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing all Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He says they've got a genocide to do for Israel and to stop objecting.
    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister. He asks who could possibly object to the IDF starving people to death, conducting forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing all Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He says they’ve got a genocide to do for Israel and to stop objecting.