Simon Shercliff

First Secretary Foreign Security and Policy Washington

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Thursday 09 July, 2009

UK-US on Iran

Today, when they met at the G8 in L'Aquila, our Prime Minister and President Obama discussed, amongst other things, Iran. While the US and UK governments still share great concern over Iran's nuclear programme, that subject obviously topped the billing. But in addition the UK has the immediate problem of dealing with the completely unacceptable behaviour of the Iranian regime in continuing to detain a member of the British Embassy in Tehran on the patently ridiculous charge of conspiring to fuel the violence in the immediate post-election aftermath. We are grateful for the firm solidarity that President Obama expressed with us on the issue.

Posted at 19:02 09 July 2009 by Simon Shercliff  |  Comments[2]

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The obsession that the UK and US have with Iran is the issue of power. If Iran does gain nuclear power and a nuclear weapon then they will become one of the main powerbrokers in that region. The US and UK do not want independent middle-east powers, they want dependent powers like the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt. The UK and US keep going on about the nuclear ambitions of Iran and the alleged threat to Israel but why can't they be more honest. Iran is a competitor in that region, and the US and UK don't like competitors.

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