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UK walks diplomatic tightrope over Trump’s attack on Iran – Politics Weekly Westminster

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss how Keir Starmer’s government is responding to the US president’s decision to launch attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. What might happen next? And what could it mean for the UK and the world?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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Legendary Investor Ray Dalio's new book, How Countries Go Broke, The Big Cycle, explains the mechanics behind big debt crises.

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Larry Summers says Dalio's brilliant, iconoclastic approach is an invaluable resource, and Hank Paulson says it,

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provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.

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Available now, wherever books are sold. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

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Iran, the bully of the Middle East,

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must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.

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The UK was not involved in this military action. What we have been attempting to do is get the

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Iranians back to diplomacy.

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We have a longstanding concern that goes back 20 years about the Iranians nuclear program.

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I'm Pippa Kriera.

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And I'm Kieran Stacey.

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