Israel's president has accused Keir Starmer of allowing Iran's 'empire of evil' to operate freely in Britain. Isaac Herzog said the prime minister allowed Iranian terror cells to 'do what they want' in the UK and said the Middle Eastern 'rogue state' should be 'crushed'.
President Herzog made the comments in an interview earlier this week which came after four Jewish charity-owned ambulances were set on fire on Monday in an incident which is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime.
Metropolitan Police officials previously said the investigation into the arson attack was looking at an Islamist group with potential links to Iran after unsubstantiated claims of responsibility by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya - The Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand.
Counter-terrorism police arrested two British nationals, aged 45 and 47, earlier this week and released both on bail. Speaking to the executive director of pro-Israel campaign group StandWithUs, Mr Herzog said Iran spent 'billions of dollars' and had 'terror cells all over the world'. He added Iran operated 'directly and through their proxies' and it was 'about time the world stands up to them'.
President Herzog continued: 'How come in Britain, the Prime Minister of Britain says there were about 10 or 20 events only last year linked to Iranian terror? What is this?'According to a report in the Telegraph, the president added: 'They're allowed to do what they want. They are a rogue state. They're an empire of evil and they're an evil regime and it must be crushed.'
Relations between Britain, the US and Israel have become strained after Sir Keir's decision not to support the initial strikes against Iran. Since the UK failed to join the strikes, US president Donald Trump has repeatedly made remarks about the prime minister and on Thursday described Britain's two largest warships as 'toys'.
He has previously referred to Sir Keir as 'no Churchill' who made a 'big mistake' in not rushing to support the Iran effort. Sir Keir hit back in an interview where he accused President Trump of badmouthing him in an attempt to drag Britain into the Iran war. FULL ARTICLE AT: https://mol.im/a/15687719 via https://dailym.ai/android
No comments:
Post a Comment