(Times-UK) Liam Fox - There are three reasons why we must take the threat from Iran seriously: the nature of the regime itself, its willingness to export instability and terror, and its attempts to develop nuclear weapon technology. When you add Iran's advances in missile technology, its desire to gain nuclear weapon technology, and the growing influence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it becomes disturbingly clear that we are facing the toxic combination of an increasingly militaristic state headed by a hardline theocrat. We have long known about British soldiers being on the wrong end of Iranian training and weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iranian involvement in Syria and Lebanon - funding and training terrorists - continues to stoke regional tension and is an obstacle to an Israeli-Palestinian solution. One senior Iranian official once boasted to me that "in Syria we pull the strings. It will do what we want." The writer is Shadow UK Defense Secretary.
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