Jammu, June 20 -- British Prime Minister will have same fate as Tony Blair after Iraq war

By Ben Chacko

LONDON: The spectre of the Iraq war is hanging heavy over Keir Starmer today. The Prime Minister opposed that act of criminal aggression at the time, at least in part because he knew that Tony Blair was acting in flagrant violation of international law in invading a sovereign state to change its regime.

Yet today, Starmer is clearly flirting with committing the same crime in relation to Iran. Israeli officials have made it abundantly clear that their bombing campaign aims at overthrowing the regime in the Islamic Republic.

Whatever view one holds of that government, and the pages of this paper have always been open to its principled o...