Iraq and Afghanistan might disagree with your first point.

Last time I looked Iran and the UK are quite some distance from each other, and Iran has inexplicably neither been launching missiles at the UK, nor threatening to, and is apparently not even capable of it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crm120x4lzxo

So the justification for these "defensive" bombing runs on Iranian mountain sites from Fairford remains mysterious.

The UK's arms industry is - like most things associated with the establishment - an exercise in turning privilege into cash, so it's not a surprise to see Senior Figures doing the media rounds in establishment narrative factories like The Telegraph and The Daily Mail.

Readers with the money and connections to make a difference already know how the game is played.

Readers who don't should perhaps be allowed to keep their happy fantasy that the UK isn't one of the most corrupt countries in the world, as a mercy.

Iran has been funding terrorist networks who are active in the UK and has taken direct action against UK citizens before on numerous occasions.

They are also allied with Russia who are doing the same.

They aren't some innocent party here. Geopolitics is complicated and not some black and white good guy bad guy mechanics.

Iran attacked the British base in Cyprus with drones so has directly attacked British territory more than once. Iran has also been sponsoring terrorism in the UK. Iran has also attacked an American base on British territory.

> one of the most corrupt countries in the world

A ridiculous exaggeration given what a lot of other countries are like.