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Rory Stewart

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

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The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

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The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

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The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

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The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

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The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

We think of security risks as big and dramatic, but increasingly not.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

They're creeping in through the ordinary, an email that looks plausible, a link that feels routine.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

That's why I've been using NordVPN to close the gap.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

The first answer, Lorcan, is...

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

We'd be bluffing if we said we completely knew because internet's down often, telephone's down often.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

It's really difficult talking to people in Iran.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

An Iranian friend of mine managed to get through to his mother yesterday

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

Another one of my neighbors managed to talk to someone in Tehran.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

So what am I hearing from them?

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

There's a random anecdotal.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

First thing is their experience is they think that the US is mostly striking military sites, ballistic missile sites.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

Israel seems to be, but how on earth they differentiate an Israeli bomb from an American bomb, I have no idea.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

But anyway, their understanding is that it's Israel that's mostly hitting the government offices.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

One of the things that you will realize when you go to Tehran is that these government offices, and you can go to Shiraz, are right in the middle of town, and there's residential neighborhoods all the way around.

The Rest Is Politics
511. Is Blair Undermining Starmer on Iran? (Question Time)

It's not actually quite like hitting Whitehall here.