Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Michael

Simmons and this is the Sunday Roundup. This week, the focus is on protests in Iran, Trump's

Greenland desires and Peter Mandelson's first interview since he was sacked as US ambassador.

Protests have swept across Iran in the last couple of days,

and reports suggest hundreds of people may now have been killed by the regime's ensuring crackdown.

On Sky News this morning, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said the UK is hoping for a peaceful transition of power.

The British government has always viewed Iran as a hostile state.

We know that they pose a security threat in the Middle East and beyond.

And we know that they have been a repressive regime in terms of their own population.

And so I think the priority as of today is to try and stem the violence that is happening in Iran at the moment.

But it has been a destabilising impact on the world.

We know that they are in an axis with Russia, for example, seeking to evade sanctions that have been applied on illegitimate oil transportation.

And so, you know, it's a concerning situation there.

And we would like to see, you know, anything that happens in future involving a peaceful transition where people

can draw fundamental freedoms and we see, you know, proper democratic values back in the heart.

So do you...

President Trump has suggested the US needs to own Greenland for national security reasons,

claiming he will do it the easy way or the hard way.

This week, Downing Street has held talks with European partners about sending troops to Greenland

to shore up its defence and ease Trump's security concerns.

On the BBC, Laura Kunsberg asked Conservative leader Kemi Badenok if she would support this action.

What exactly is the threat we're talking about?

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