Sir Richard Dalton (left) in Tehran 2005
Mark Curtis – Declassified UK June 26, 2025
- Keir Starmer’s flouting of international law over Gaza and Iran does a “disservice” to Britain
- “Intense” lobbying by Israel exerts undue influence over UK foreign policy
- “Majority” of Iranians may support their country acquiring nuclear arms after Israeli/US attacks
“Israel is not an ally” of Britain, former UK ambassador Sir Richard Dalton has told Declassified in a wide-ranging interview.
He also warns that Britain’s Israel lobby is getting “stronger” and exerts “a very powerful force in our society” including over politicians and political parties.
In a discussion on the current conflicts in the Middle East, Dalton, who served as Britain’s top official in Tehran from 2003-06, said that the United States and Israel together constituted “a greater threat to the stability of the region than Iran”.
He added that prime minister Keir Starmer’s backing of Israeli and American air strikes on Iran this month does “a disservice to Britain, and a disservice to the cause of preserving international law as guidance for nations in their interactions with each other”.
Dalton told Declassified that the contention that Iran was on the verge of developing nuclear arms is “false” and that “no such threat existed”.
Watch our interview with Sir Richard Dalton
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The seasoned diplomat, who served as Britain’s Consul-General in Jerusalem from 1993-7, observed, “I think that Israel cannot be regarded as an ally because their objectives in resolving the central problems of the Near East are so different from ours”.
“We believe in the self-determination of the Palestinian people. The Israelis do not. We believe in a two state solution. The Israelis, not all of them, but the dominant ones, do not.
“We believe that the state of Israel should be based on its 1948 borders. The Israelis do not. We believe that settlements across the Green Line are illegal and an obstacle to peace, the Israelis are bent on expanding them and, we believe that the Palestinians have a right to a peaceful existence on their own land”.
Dalton acknowledged that Israel does provide intelligence cooperation with Britain about extremist movements.
But he felt the idea that Israel is an ally because it is “the only democracy in the Middle East” is undermined since it “constantly oppresses its neighbouring people and subjects them to inhuman circumstances” such as in Gaza.
“It’s forfeited its right to be regarded as an ally just because it has an internal democracy”, Dalton said.
Condemning the “appalling and grossly illegal” Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, the former ambassador added that “the balance indicates that this [Israel] is not a country with a similar set of values to us”.
‘Pro-Israel lobby in British foreign policy making’
Dalton, who held a range of positions in the Foreign Office until leaving in 2006, believes the UK has not taken a clear position on international legal issues over Gaza due to “the desire not to open up a wide gulf with the United States as a matter of principle”.
“I find it shocking”, he says. “There are European countries that have taken a much more robust and intelligent and humane and legal stance.”
Dalton added: “The reason we have never developed an independent policy on the turmoils and travails of the Middle East is because we are always looking over our shoulders at what the Americans want, what the Americans are saying”.
The second reason explaining UK support for Israel over Gaza is the Israel lobby, the former ambassador reasoned.
The “balance of opinion in parliament” is such that “those willing to uphold the Palestinian right to self-determination and to be free from gross human rights abuses are relatively weak”.
There’s also “the effect of intense Israeli lobbying and the linkage of Israeli lobbying to financial interests. It is a very powerful force in our society. Those who support the Israeli government through thick and thin, have traditionally been very influential”, Dalton added.
‘Powerful allies’
The Israel lobby has “powerful political allies in some political parties, and in some sections of the media. So a desire for a quiet life and a good career, means that many politicians swallow potential dislike of aspects of Israeli policy in order to toe the Israeli line”.
Asked if he sees evidence of the strength of the pro-Israel lobby in Britain’s Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence, Dalton replied: “Oh, yes. There’s no doubt that the Israeli public have a right to be proud of their diplomatic service and the ability of the State of Israel to leverage sources of influence within British society”.
“I remember at the time of one of Israel’s invasions of Lebanon, David Cameron mentioning an encounter he’d had on the steps of a railway carriage with a prominent supporter of the State of Israel, who was also a very prominent, powerful British businessman.
“And, he had had to say, I think this is 2010, as far as I remember, that no, there were limits to what we were prepared to support. We didn’t consider it right that Israel had the right to smash up civil facilities in Lebanon. But since those days, Israeli influence and the influence of supporters of the government of Israel has got stronger.”
Asked if Israeli influence raises questions about democratic decision-making in Britain, Dalton replied: “Yes it does. And opinion polls in Britain show that the stances the British government has taken are not in accordance with majority opinion in Britain who increasingly see through Israeli claims to be conducting a moral war”.
‘Ridiculous Western mantra’
Shortly after Dalton’s tenure as ambassador in Tehran, Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency said in a top secret document: “The Israelis remain a real threat to the stability of the region, in particular because of the position of this country with respect to [Iran]”.
Commenting on that assessment, Dalton told Declassified: “I’ve always believed that the United States and Israel together constituted a greater threat to the stability of the region than Iran”.
“Iran’s activities against Israel were wrong and destabilising”, Dalton added, but there is “a ridiculous Western mantra that Iran is the source of all evil, when all the states of the region, from Saudi Arabia to Turkey and from the United States to Israel to Iran, have been involving themselves in the conflicts in the region”.
Iran’s rhetoric about threats to Israel is “real and represents beliefs at the heart of the supreme leader that Israel shouldn’t be there”, Dalton says. “But Iran has never had the capability of putting those threats into action. And it was not developing the capability to attack Israel with nuclear weapons”.
Asked by Declassified why the UK has refused to openly recognise Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons, Dalton speculated: “I suspect it’s a commitment they have given to the Israeli government and the United States”.
“If it is such a thing, I’m not aware of its details but maybe they feel bound by such a commitment. Personally, I can’t see it serving any useful purpose. I think openness and a proper discussion is what is needed.”
Dalton also laments that UK ministers have “ignored the proper application of international law, both with respect to Gaza and to Iran”.
Keir Starmer’s government has been “facing two ways”, he says, discouraging the use of UK facilities in helping the US to attack Iran “but at the same time wishing to show full support for Israel and the United States”.
Scuppering talks
As for an imminent nuclear threat from Iran to justify the recent Israeli and American attacks on the country, Dalton said such threats have been claimed by Israel for over two decades and that “no such threat existed”.
“You can be sure that if such a threat was able to be documented, we would have heard about it”, he added.
The attacks scuppered international talks to restrict Iran’s nuclear programme while “Iran remained open to further negotiations”, Dalton remarked. The seventh round of such talks was due to be held but was aborted by Israel’s attacks on 13 June.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “acted to avoid any such discussion”, Dalton suggested. “In so doing and in aborting a potentially fruitful diplomatic outcome, which President Trump had said was possible, shortly before the attack, he did the world a grave disservice”.
More dangerous world
Dalton, who served in Tehran in the aftermath of the US/UK invasion of Iraq in 2003, said that Trump “has potentially made the Middle East more prone to nuclear proliferation than before he conducted the attack” on Iran.
“By every standard, this was not a legal preemptive attack and its consequences, though shortened now by the ceasefire, if it holds, could turn out to be a more unstable and potentially nuclear armed Middle East than before the attacks”.
“There will be, I believe, majority support amongst Iranian people” for Iran acquiring nuclear weapons in the future to prevent further attacks.
The strikes have also made nuclear inspections harder, Dalton said, with Iran’s parliament voting this week to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
“I suspect that the nuclear materials that had been in the sites that have been bombed, which will not have required many trucks to remove them, have been removed and that it is now much harder for the International Atomic Energy Agency to carry out the job, which we all want it to do, to continue tracing nuclear materials to account for them”.
Threats to the UK?
The UK government has taken steps in recent months to crack down on what it says are increasing “state threats from Iran” against dissidents and journalists in Britain.
MI5 says that since the start of 2022 the UK has responded to 20 Iran-backed plots “presenting potentially lethal threats to British citizens and UK residents”.
Dalton says these threats are “wrong and repulsive. The activities of a section of the Iranian external security service are repugnant and must be stopped. But it’s easy to exaggerate the impact. No one’s been killed, thank goodness. I think the Iranian policy is to throw scares into people”.
He added: “But it’s not a threat to our democracy or a threat to the stability of our society because it’s targeted at particular enemies of the Iranian state, as the Iranians see it.”
Dalton, who served in the British embassy in Oman as head of chancery in the early 1980s, also responded to our questioning about Britain’s secret GCHQ spy base in Oman.
“It was put there originally because of the existential threat to Britain and Western Europe and the Atlantic Alliance from Russia. I have no way of knowing what, if any, role the station in Oman now has”.
“Every potential technique of electronic surveillance will be being used against Iran”, Dalton added.
Generally, ambassadors are spies and liars, often both.
The UK is in Nazi jack boot step with Nazi Joolandia. Not only are we providing airbase, we fly spy missions, and we even have the SAS in Iran flying drones and murdering civilians.
Just because a few elected twats say xyz in the hope it can keep them out of court on genocide and war crimes charges, because even though they are Nazis, they know they’re expected to fall on their swards now and then.
Because the Iranians and Russians know the SAS are in Iran, and the Nazi Brits know the Russians and Iranians know, they are expecting to be his, and they’ve even said this.
The fake ceasefire has prevented Iran striking bases in Cyprus, and even the UK, as I suspect Iran has rocket/missiles that can reach the UK. I am not saying these missiles are in service, but they can be put together.
Wonderful. Didn’t know e still had such politicians, with old-fashioned moral integrity.
He’ll be reviled for sure. You can’t go telling truths like that, old boy.
LOL..
Dalton has this to say..
“He also warns that Britain’s Israel lobby is getting “stronger” and exerts “a very powerful force in our society” including over politicians and political parties.”
Obviously this imbecile and regime bolt on Dolt-on has never heard of Oliver Cromell or the ‘trustees of the bank of england’, the red pedestrain clean out of the stock exchange on the battle of Waterloo Benjamin Disraeli.. the Balfour declaration or Victor Rothschild and the fact brit-ish intel is just that, owned by central bankers..the fact that the stolen state is owned by the same family as old vic..that the st davids hotel bombing goes unnoticed..and the jewe lobby in pirate rock objected to a memorial to the soldiers strung up on piano wire..
of course they are supposedly being given the lol right to build a holohoax monstrosity on prime green belt real estate next to parliament..paid for by the heritage english the jewes are busy replacing with tribal villagers.. so that would be a prime vector of attack on these unhinged murderers..
what a mendacious imbeciles this Dolt is ….still it’s a start..if a very limp one..
Israel may not “be an ally of Britain”…
but – rest assured!! – Izzy is not only an ally of the Bwitish EshSTABwishmenth but the two of them are virtually inseparable….
like siamese-twins… with, in this particular case, UK’s kisser firmly attached – like an industrial-strength suction-pump! – to Izzy’s sphincter! 🤣
It’s not a lobby, it’s a Trojan Horse.
It doesn’t help matters, of course, that there’s NO pushback from a feckless population of THICK Brits.. 🙄
Joolandia court, will not delay Nutanyahu’s corruption trial. This doesn’t mean he won’t get let off.
White morons still can’t figure out the Bible (OT/NT) got us into this mess.
The phony ‘anti-Israel’ stance Rothschild instructs his various goy lackeys to simulate now & then– to mask the total Jew control of the political system. ‘You see there’s still some independent politicians out there with a mind of their own boy’. Don’t know much about Richard Dalton, but check out the mongrel ghoul he’s walking next to in photo below headline..
Does anybody know who the ghoul next to Dalton is? 10 to 1 its his handler ..i’m sure dalton blowjobbed him a lot
Since when a parasite is an ally?
He lost all credibility with the Zionist lie of the . Gaza and Palestine are occupied by Israel. International law permits the occupied to resist occupation. The majority of those attacked and held hostage were military and/or reservists, and more people were killed by the IDF than Hamas. If Hamas are “terrorists” then so were the French Underground.
‘Sniff out the Yids on June 27, 2025 at 2:26 pm
Does anybody know who the ghoul next to Dalton is? 10 to 1 its his handler ………..
the ghoul wears a jüdenstern yellow tie . signifying its loyalties to the jüdenstaat.https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenstern.
Just more Truman Show scripted drama for the morons to perceive as ‘real’.
@Lovecraft
‘you see, there’s still some establishment figure that will stand up to these jew bullies son’
interesting how they thoroughly imposed this word ‘british’ on the Germanic Anglo Saxon masses of England. Oh that’s right, the word ‘brit’ is hebrew for covenant.
The UN provided a good cop to the bad cop of the Israeli colonists back in the day and also presently. The idea is to steer the narrative within permissible bounds. With the latest Jewish atrocities in Palestine, TPTB have to put forward the good cop again in various guises “castigating” the bad cop in order to manage the dialectic. We must remember Jeremy Corbyn was eased out the Labour leadership because he possessed some principles the parliamentary “Friends of Israel” disagree with.
Trump of course attempted to be “fair minded” with his recent bumping together the heads of two misbehaving boys when he “accidently” – in fact intentionally – dropped the F bomb. A munition that knocked more people out of their seats than any explosive blowing up in the desert. But this equivocation is never fair because a fight usually comes about not because if exactly 50% blame to warring parties; not that Iran and Israel are real enemies IMO anyway.
My guess is that soon we will have “peace” where the “fair minded” PTB will suggest “all sides have to give a little”. Nevertheless, the Palestinian’s hold on their land will weaken a little more if not irreparably while Israel will get a slap across the wrist. Maybe Netanyahu will be given the boot so the “fair-minded” can say look we have achieved a negotiated peace.
It is worth quoting again a section from one of Makow’s book recommendations again. Jack Bernstein’s “The Life of An American Jew In Israel”. Among other things, he speaks of the New York/Moscow/Tel Aviv triangle. This is significant because it describes the faux support that the Soviet Union/Russia gave to the Arab cause. In fact, the Soviets were batting for the Jews all along; ethnic solidarity I suppose. Bernstein writes:
“In viewing the 1973 War, most people, and it seems most Arabs also, are of the impression that since Soviet Russia sold equipment to Egypt, and other Arab countries, the Soviets were in support of the Arabs in the 1973 War. This is a false impression. To understand that this is the result of more deceit on the part of Israel and the Soviet Union, you must be aware on the “Gold Meir – Stalin/Kaganovich Pact”. Golda Meir had been born in Russia, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in 1921 migrated to Israel. In 1949, Gold Meir became Israel’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union. Representing Israel, Ambassador Golda Meir, a Bolshevik Jewess, met with two representatives of the Soviet Union – 1. Kaganovich, a Bolshevik Jew and 2. Stalin, who had married a Bolshevik Jewess. They made a secret agreement – a pact.
ISRAEL’S PART OF THE PACT WAS:
Israel would NOT allow any Western country, especially the U.S., to build military bases on Israeli territory.
Israel WOULD allow an official Communist Party to function freely in Israel.
Israel would NOT make any agreement to solve the Palestinian problem.
Israel WOULD influence world Jewry, especially in the U.S., to have Western powers adopt a policy of favouring Israel over the Arabs.
Israel WAS to continue its Marxist economic policies, and to prevent any free enterprise tendencies.
THE SOVIET UNION’S PART OF THE PACT WAS:
The Soviets WOULD institute a pro-Arab policy solely as a camouflage for its true intentions – which were to furnish aid to the Arabs, but never enough to enable the Arabs to destroy Israel.
The Soviets WOULD open the gates of Soviet satellite countries to Jewish immigration to Israel. Should this be insufficient, Soviet Russia WOULD then open its own gates to immigration [to Israel].
The Soviets WOULD absolutely guarantee the security of Israel.”
mega therion on June 27, 2025 at 8:19 pm. ‘Oh that’s right, the word ‘brit’ is hebrew for covenant.’ is the Jewish ‘mischiach’ not to restore the covenant?
Agreement and appreciation for the comment, “Since when is a parasite an ally?”
The West has been conquered by the Zionist International. The middle east is being conquered by the Zionist International. The Amalak view of non-jews is real, is in force. No wonder, that the Zionist International has wormed its way into governments, into media, into academia, into the narrative continually forced upon the stupid, the cowardly and the gullible.
Look to the ruins of Palestine, oh West. If it can do that genocide, it can do the same to the West. Look to how the Zionist International has ruined so much, and the supremacist, racist Zionist International wants to flood Europe, the British Isles and America, with the thinking that to divide is to conquer, so that the Tribe will rise with its Tribalist, racist ideology that there will be no unified front to it, or its Greater Israel goal.
To all the pale weedy nerdy little kikes reading this…
Deutschland has a BIG Account to settle with you ratshit untermensch cunts
Coming Soon..to every corner of the globe you scuttle to..
-70ad was a cuddleparty compared to whats coming..
Brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcW3eOaivLA
more…haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1efzTRn0pU
This is nothing new. Israel has had a consistent long history of doing the world a grave disservice, since its inception in 1948.
Similar to unwarranted attacks on Iran, Lebanon, West Bank, Gaza, etc., this repeat pattern is shown from the book, The Synagogue of Satan, The Secret History of Jewish World Domination by Andrew Carrington Hitchcock:
Indeed they live up to,
“The Palestinians have a right to a peaceful existence on their own land”–but the British? No! They will get prison sentences if they complain about Replacement and the Rape Jihad in their “own land”
The Brit, Scot, Irishman, the indigenous Celtic of the Isles, etc. have a right to peaceful existence on their own land. The command of G-d has not changed all these years:
That is all the decedents of Noah, including the white Brits. G-d also expressed the same to Ishmael, founder of all the Arabs, to multiply (Genesis 17:20).
All this worldwide suppression has nothing to do with restoring an ancient homeland to restore the chosenites to rule the world.
It is about greed. Gog, the international money changing Khazarian Mafia (KM) wants to own everything. They want the rest of the world outside them to “Be happy and own nothing”. G-d considers theft an abomination.
The difference in suppression is that the Palestinian gets a bullet to the back of the head Bolshevik style. That deep hatred for the Anglo-Saxon Caucasian is moronic, as these haters have A-S blood in their veins and no Hebrew blood. Yet the Palestinians, who qualify based on their genetics as decedents of the ancient Hebrews are being murdered. I discussed the long, ongoing Brit A-S replacement project in:
‘Enough’s enough!’ Britain ‘way beyond’ point of return as thousands descend on Dover to ‘stop the boats’ by tts-admin | Apr 28, 2025
If one notices, they have taken over nearly all the world governments. Any who speak up: English, American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, German, Spaniard, Egyptian, Peruvian, and etc. are immediately silenced by their law enforcers or the KM owned press makes no mention.
This is why they are wanting to lock down social media, because ppl have taken to it to express their dissident opinions. The world leaders, who incarcerate (in some cases murder) their citizens for speaking out are only KM puppets.
The lesser Jews are not excepted. They who disagree are being treated as Gentiles and are silenced. (Sometimes the silencing comes Bolshevik style, for example, Jack Bernstein, the Kennedy’s, and other Jewish truthers were murdered.)
Equally interesting, I have found the Christian Zionists not to be trusted because some get offended when told the truth about Zionism as false Christian doctrine. The following reveals their key leader as one who follows a Bolshevik gospel, not that of Christ’s eternal peace. John Hagee, the ultra wealthy cleric heretic, supports destruction of the Palestinians (of whom 40% are Christians) by fully supporting the KM.
The book Bloody Zion, Refuting the Jewish Fables that Sustain Israel’s War Against God and Man (2012) by Edward Hendrie, Chapter 1 – Stripping Sheep’s Clothing From a Wolf shows that
Hagee also urges war with Iran on behalf of the KM Bolshevik perpetrators. See John Hagee Cheers Israel-Iran Battle as ‘Gog and Magog War,’ Will Lobby Congress Not to Deescalate, Apr. 14, 2024.
But according to:
The Anglo-Saxon was created in the same image of G-d as all others. G-d has assigned the responsibility for man to avenge the murder of another – no matter skin colour, origin or ethnicity. This contrasts with:
Perhaps the following result by Iran is the start of this justice?
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=311152 Iran’s missile strike destroyed training center for Israeli military pilots: Report by tts-admin | Jun 27, 2025
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=311185 Israel Suffered Extensive Damage by tts-admin | Jun 28, 2025
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=311224 Videos Reveal the Extent of Damage Caused by Iranian Missile Strikes by tts-admin | Jun 28, 2025
It was with relative ease that the Iranians broke through the IDF’s defences. The extent of damage is very revealing. Perhaps this may be the start of the fulfilment of?