NO ONE knows exactly how close Iran is to making a nuclear weapon.
Not least because it has banned international inspectors from finding out.
ReutersDonald Trump offered Iran a way out — giving up its nuclear programme[/caption]
But their intention is clear.
Iran is the only non-nuclear-armed country in the world to have enriched uranium at such high levels.
Tehran’s fanatical Islamists also want desperately to fire a nuke warhead at Israel and wipe it out.
Donald Trump already offered Iran a way out — by giving up its nuclear programme.
It responded with a bombing attack on an Israeli hospital.
There is a powerful case for Trump to now order a bunker-buster bomb raid on Iran’s underground network
Not only could it destroy the mad mullahs’ ambitions for a nuclear holocaust. It could also define his presidency.
Strong intervention now will show other despots the US is back as a global deterrent force after Joe Biden’s humiliating Afghanistan withdrawal.
So far, Sir Keir Starmer’s response has been insipid — trotting out the usual Foreign Office lines about the need for de-escalation.
But if America strikes, Britain MUST back them and Israel to the hilt.
Iran — with secret agents from its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operating on our streets — is a threat to us, too.
It’s no surprise to learn that Attorney General Lord Hermer has warned Starmer that UK involvement “could” be illegal.
When it comes to national security, he has been on the wrong side of every argument so far.
The Prime Minister needs to be crystal clear with Lord Hermer — and everybody else — that British interests lie with Israel and America.
The stakes could not be higher.
Paradise last
SUCH is the new Europe-wide anti-immigration crackdown, Britain remains the last paradise for illegal migrants.
Countries such as Denmark and Sweden are turning asylum-seekers away at the door.
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Meanwhile, the UK escorts them across the Channel and puts them up indefinitely in hotels.
If only we could follow Australia’s example and cut numbers to next to nothing with a scheme to send migrants to a third country.
Except we did have one.
The Rwanda plan — spitefully scrapped by Labour — WAS working to deter migrants, who had started heading to Ireland instead.
Australia’s former foreign minister Alexander Downer, the architect of his country’s successful scheme, calls that decision a “tragedy” for Britain.
We can only agree.
One day, ministers will have to admit what a terrible mistake they made.
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