own people? sectarian Shite that Iran, despite its Iran. support the clerical fundamentalism of the Iranian regime, or the chauvinist nationalism of its president Ahmadinejad: but we support the right of the Iranians to defend their borders against incursions by British or US troops, especially in the light of carefully-leaked rumours that US Special Forces and/or the SAS may already be active inside Iranian territory.
Iraq, like Afghanistan, has shown that the worst and most destructive means to achieve regime change is through external invasion.
And however much the rabid western media may like to paint Iran as a land in thrall to "mad mullahs", the craziest policy of all would be for the UK and US to follow up their botched and bloody invasion of Iraq, a relatively small country of 20 million people with an equally unjustified war against Iran, a much larger country of over 70 million.
There are signs that wiser counsel is prevailing, as the Iranian regime offers negotiations to defuse a crisis created and stoked up on both sides to the point it was getting out of hand.
But we must stand ready to challenge each and every new step along the lines of propaganda war against Iran that could be intended to pave the way for the real thing.