The Iranian regime’s longstanding support for terror armies, its ballistic missile programme and nuclear ambitions have sown destabilisation and fear across the Middle East.
Tehran represents a clear and present danger to the national security of the UK and our allies and partners in the region and beyond.
Time and time again, the regime has shown it has no interest in diplomacy, simply using negotiations as an opportunity to rebuild its nuclear capabilities – whose aim are to to fulfil Tehran’s repeatedly stated desire to wipe Israel off the map.
The Moscow-Tehran axis is aiding Putin’s war against Ukraine, providing the Kremlin’s war machine with drones and missiles to terrorise Ukrainian civilians.
The regime is at war with the Iranian people. Its violent suppression of last month’s protest movement – in which more than 30,000 people are believed to have perished – was simply its latest act of unconscionable savagery.
In the UK, Tehran is responsible for supporting terrorism and plotting assassination attacks against the Jewish community, Iranian dissidents and journalists.
The US and Israel are right to act in defence of the Iranian people, to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent the regime continuing to threaten international peace and security.
Our thoughts are with the brave people of Iran who have suffered under a brutal theocratic tyranny for four decades.
And they are with the Israeli people, who are once again in bomb shelters as Iranian ballistic missiles are indiscriminately fired at innocent civilians.
We pray for the safety of Israel, the Iranian people and the whole Middle East.