UK’s Conservative party leader, Kemi Badenoch has said on X that Iran must never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.

Kemi shared this on her X handle hours after Israel attacked Iran’ nuclear sites, barracks and ballistic weapons storage.

The attack also killed top Iranian generals and civilians.

‘Our immediate focus must be on stabilisation — working with allies to prevent further escalation’, Kemi tweeted..

‘But let’s be clear-eyed about the reality. The world is becoming more dangerous, and Britain must be ready to defend itself’, she concluded.

On Friday, after two decades of continually raising the alarm and urging other world leaders to act, Netanyahu finally decided to go it alone, authorising an Israeli air assault aimed, Israel says, at preventing Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction.

In an address to the nation, Netanyahu, as he has so often before, evoked the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust in World War Two to explain his decision.

“Nearly a century ago, facing the Nazis, a generation of leaders failed to act in time,” Netanyahu said, adding that a policy of appeasing Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had led to the deaths of 6 million Jews, “a third of my people”.

“After that war, the Jewish people and the Jewish state vowed never again. Well, never again is now today. Israel has shown that we have learned the lessons of history.”

Iran says its nuclear energy programme is only for peaceful purposes, although the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday declared the country in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in almost 20 years.