Jonathan Reynolds on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

A senior minister has refused to say if Donald Trump’s overnight strikes on Iran broke international law.

The US president announced that the States had “obliterated” three Iranian nuclear sites overnight, days after Israel began to attack the Middle Eastern country over fears it was developing nuclear warheads.

Iran has consistently denied that it is building any such weapon.

Iranian ambassador to the UK has called the US attack an illegal strike which breached international law.

While the UK was not involved in the strike, it was warned ahead of time that it was coming.

Fears that Britain could be roped into a wider Middle East conflict are now at an all-time high, with a few critics even comparing it to the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The US invaded the Middle Eastern country to

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