Minister axed over opposition to attack

Sir Nick Harvey, who was the Minister of State for the Armed Forces in the last two years, told some of his friends that he was fired in order to prevent a damaging split within the coalition government over an Israeli adventurism.

Harvey’s friends added that if he had remained in the key Ministry of Defence post, it could have embarrassed the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg because of Harvey’s critical stance on a possible strike on Iran.

However, in an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Harvey confirmed that he had considered his sacking was linked to speculations of a possible attack on Iran, but then discounted the idea.

This is while a party insider said, “With our record over opposing the Iraq War, no one in our party is going to congratulate Israel on launching a strike.”

Meanwhile, according to a report published by the Israeli daily Haaretz earlier on September 10, a senior British envoy to Israel recently warned the regime against a unilateral strike on Iran’s nuclear energy facilities.

Israeli regime has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities on the unfounded ground that Iran is seeking to weaponize its nuclear energy.

Iran has rejected the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

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