Grant Shapps praises the government’s decision to authorise use of the Royal Air Force to shoot down missiles aimed at Israel last night – calling it 'the right thing to do'. The former defence secretary also blames Iran for all the problems facing the region.
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00:00Well actually I'm very pleased to see the government has overnight approved the Royal
00:04Air Force and asked them to shoot down incoming missiles from Iran aimed at Israel, absolutely
00:11the right thing to do. It's the same decision that I made back in April of this year. There's
00:15actually an existing operation of RAF jets over Iraq and Syria. They're there. It would
00:20be outrageous to allow something to fly past and go and attack a friendly ally, a democratic
00:26nation from a regime like that in Tehran. So yeah, warmly welcome it. The world has
00:31to face the fact that all the problems in the Middle East, all roads lead back to Tehran.
00:36Whether it's the Houthis firing from Yemen, whether it's Hamas breaking out and firing
00:42on Israel and slaughtering their citizens, whether it's Hezbollah from Lebanon, all roads
00:47lead to the Iranian regime.