The US president authorised airstrikes that killed multiple people in Iraq, including an Iranian major-general known for his role in “achieving victory” in the war against Daesh.
Numerous key figures in the UK Labour Party have come out against the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani referring to it as a “dangerous escalation” towards full-blown war.
Among them was Richard Burgon, Labour's shadow justice secretary, who warned that US President Donald Trump was on the verge of starting a war with Iran that would be “even worse” than the Iraq War.
Burgon, who will be campaigning to be the party's next deputy leader, cautioned in July 2019 that the UK was at risk of being dragged into a war with Iran. Soleimani was the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), which the Trump administration labelled a terrorist organisation in 2019, the first time a branch of a state has been labelled as such.
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, called the assassination of Soleimani a “dangerous escalation” in the region and called for restraint from all sides. Corbyn, who is expected to step down as party leader later this year, said:
“All countries in the region and beyond should seek to ratchet down the tensions to avoid deepening conflict, which can only bring further misery to the region, 17 years on from the disastrous invasion of Iraq”.
Labour MP Jess Phillips, who is expected to announce her bid for the Labour leadership, said “Reckless…
There is no low in the world just for mony.
We are just waiting for the war to be hot. We have been.in cold war mode all this time.
He was war mongering . . .