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Speaker 1: Kevin gray are UK europe correspondent on the question of

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Speaker 1: whether actually an Iranian missile could European capitals like Paris

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Speaker 1: in London, Gavin, could they?

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Speaker 2: Well, the latest analysis from the security services in the

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Speaker 2: UK suggest not. It thinks that Iran has deliberately capped

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Speaker 2: its missile range two thousand kilometers. Ministers for Iran saying

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Speaker 2: they've done that deliberately because quote, we don't want to

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Speaker 2: be felt as a threat by anyone else in the

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Speaker 2: world but the Israelis. And indeed this was confirmed in

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Speaker 2: another statement just in the last few hours by Benuminette

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Speaker 2: and Yahoo have said actually they had the capability to

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Speaker 2: strike right at the heart of Europe. We're talking Paris

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Speaker 2: early in and London and that is nearer four thousand kilometers,

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Speaker 2: so a significant doubling there of the distance that their

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Speaker 2: missiles are said to be able to travel. Today, the

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Speaker 2: government and ministers have been saying there is no assessment

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Speaker 2: to substantiate those claims that Iran has long range missiles

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Speaker 2: and as one menisters said, even if they could, why

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Speaker 2: would they. Well, of course now people are thinking, well

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Speaker 2: they might because America is using British bases both here

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Speaker 2: in the UK, but also a joint based on the

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Speaker 2: Chigossian island of the Diego Garcia, with which to launch

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Speaker 2: missions against Iran. So great deal of concern about this intelligence,

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Speaker 2: which Israel says is genuine.

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Speaker 1: Gavin, tell me about this odd well, it seems an

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Speaker 1: odd peering Iranian man and a Romanian woman who've been

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Speaker 1: charged with trying to get into a navy base.

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Speaker 2: Yes, not just any navy base though Ryan it is

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Speaker 2: the home of the UK nuclear armed submarines. One can't

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Speaker 2: think of a more secure unit, at least I'd hope so.

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Speaker 2: But nevertheless, a thirty four year old man and a

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Speaker 2: thirty one year old woman were arrested. It appears to

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Speaker 2: be at the perimeter fence of the naval base, which

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Speaker 2: is at Argalan Butte in Scotland. Now they're due to

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Speaker 2: a peer before a sheriff's court Monday our time, in

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Speaker 2: other words, probably about fourteen fifteen hours from now, and

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Speaker 2: the news reports are that the nature of the charges

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Speaker 2: will not be confirmed until then. But the UK's four

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Speaker 2: Vanguard class ballistic missiles submarines which carry triedent nuclear missiles,

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Speaker 2: are based there. So the idea somebody might have been

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Speaker 2: trying to get in for some nefarious reason is pretty amazing.

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Speaker 2: But we'll wait to hear what the charges are when

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Speaker 2: this peer appear in Quart. As you said, though a Roumanian,

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Speaker 2: but also crucially I think of great interest a thirty

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Speaker 2: four year old Iranian man.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I appreciate your time. Gevin Gray are UK europe correspondent.

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