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“Iran is not a country defined under NATO’s security umbrella, not an economy absorbed into a single bloc, and not a state whose path in a moment of crisis can be determined by the order of one foreign power. But at the same time…Iran does not have the economic power of China or the United States, their global alliance networks, or their institutional power to shape the rules of the world order.” It is “a regional power in an in-between place, trying to preserve a degree of independence without being able to become a global hegemon. “The US-Israeli attack and Iran’s response revealed this in-between position more clearly than anything else.”

Look who is the biggest threat to the UK. An elderly woman was manhandled by officers yesterday [13 April] because she was unable to walk quickly enough or far enough following her arrest under the UK Terrorism Act. Onlookers pleaded to the police to “leave her be” as they witnessed the insanity of arresting her. Over 500 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act at this single event, bringing the total arrests under the Lift The Ban campaign to well over 3,000 since July. Raj Chada, Head of Criminal Defence at leading law firm Hodge Jones and Allen, has confirmed: “The most common terrorist in the UK at present is a pensioner at a silent vigil holding a placard. That should be a matter of shame for the UK authorities.”