Has Starmer’s Iran Response Been Too Slow? | BBC Newscast

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended his response to the Iran war and announced he will send four additional fighter jets to Qatar.

Adam is joined by Jane Corbin, Panorama film maker; Lucy Fisher, Whitehall editor for the Financial Times, and Mikey Kay, military analyst for the Security Brief, to discuss Starmer’s press conference, and to take a deeper look at the weaponry being used by both sides in this conflict.

00:00 Introduction
00:56 Why did Starmer give a press conference?
08:17 What weapons does the UK have?
11:50 How is Iran retaliating?
15:00 The cost of weapons
19:58 Iran’s missile capability
22:50 What is it like to witness a drone attack?
26:15 How did Israeli and US intelligence networks inform the initial attack on Iran?

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