Britain has golden chance to team up with Donald Trump and crush Iran’s crumbling regime, ex-aide declares
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BRITAIN has a golden chance to team up with Donald Trump and crush Iran’s crumbling regime, an-ex national security adviser has declared. Lord Mark Sedwill is backing a new report that calls for the UK to align with Trump’s tough stance against Tehran.
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The Policy Exchange analysis, co-authored by former UK Ambassador Sir John Jenkins, details how the Iranian economy is on the brink, with its currency tanking and public protests growing. Ex-Cabinet Secretary Lord Sedwill, who worked closely with Trump during his first term, insisted Britain must act decisively, backing Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran’s influence.
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He added: “While aligning with Trump II’s maximum pressure against this regime, the UK should also insist that a successor, willing to liberalise at home and behave responsibly abroad, can earn a respectable place in the international community. "From crisis emerges opportunity. It is an opportunity for the UK to lead.”.
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Iran has been slaughtering its own people in "unprecedented numbers" with executions taking place every couple of hours as the "paranoid" regime lashes out in the wake of defeats against its proxies to Israel. A swathe of shocking evidence - including official figures and letters from death row prisoners - gathered by The Sun exposes that Iran's killing machine is responsible for over three quarters of the entire world's executions.
