I understand The Telegraph's uhh narrative-forming objectives but is this enough to get the mini Tommy Robinsons of the UK to support war in Iran? I feel like even those racist crayon-eaters understand an Iranian strike on the British Isles is extremely unlikely, to say the least.
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I am from the UK, and I am firmly siding with Iran as far as this war goes, despite the fact that their regime is brutal and oppressive. They had been complying with the nuclear deal signed under Obama's admin until Trump tore it up and have obviously been demonstrating remarkable restraint in the face of overwhelming aggression from US/Israeli imperialism for decades, and they had chosen diplomacy, time and time again, despite the US fucking them over, time and time again.
I hope they absolutely fucking CRUSH the entire fossil fuel industry, I hope oil prices hit $1,000 a barrel, I hope the entire US Imperial core and all countries aligned with them are brought to the fucking brink, I hope that this is the beginning of the end of the United States, Israel and the United Kingdom, sparks a series of regime change revolutions, and the beginning of a new, brighter future.
Fuck the Tories, fuck Labour. Fuck the Republicans, fuck the Democrats. They are all servants of the ruling class and the whole lot of them can swing as far as I care. The only hope for all of us is a social revolution. And I guess the Green Party in the UK, provide a little hope. But I doubt even they will be socialist enough.
Based on the information so far it seems that Iran does have the capability to reach the UK with their ballistic missiles but there's no clear indication that they're intending to do so. However, if they did the UK wouldn't have a great way of protecting itself from those strikes.
Netanyahu claims Iran has these missiles, but Iran disputes it. There's also no publicly verifiable evidence that this is true. UK intelligence also does not think Iran has such capabilities.
Besides, Iran has been only weeks away from nukes for 30 years, I'm sure they're only a couple miles off of hitting the UK as well /s.
Even then, I doubt Iran wants to trigger a UK military response to any missiles sent to the mainland.
I don't think either Netanyahu or the Iranian government are reliable sources of information, so what they say doesn't really tip the scales for me one way or the other. That said, the UK mainland is only about 600 km farther from Iran than Diego Garcia is - so if it really was them targeting that base, they probably figured it was within range.
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