in taking a similar decision to launch an attack on another country without a complete picture jack straw that's one member of parliament and british foreign secretary when britain went into war with iraq. have you with us today. thank you so do you think the congress will approve the strike. i assume that congress will approve the strike if only because it would not make sense for president obama to decide to put this before congress without having. the numbers in advance on the other hand all of us made that assumption about the british house of commons. about twelve days ago. and the assumption was that prime minister cameron had done the numbers particularly on his own side to ensure that he would win the vote and he failed to do so so. for president obama's point of view it's really rather important that he does win. what effect that will have on the situation in syria i don't stability in the middle east but you've said it you never know for sure what do you think will happen in case of a no vote do you think he will go on with a strike without the support of his people and politici

welcome back to the show we're looking at the perils of the attack on syria with jack straw u.k. foreign secretary at the time of the iraqi war great to have you back all right so it seems to me that if you're british public opposes this attack on syria the british parliament doesn't want it in particular who does. well it's certainly the case that there is a very high level of opposition ranks the british public view much higher i think than most parliamentarians including myself. dissipated and you've drawn attention to the votes at the end of august in the british house of commons with that. british governments have to take responsibility so does the british parliament so if we in parliament were convinced about both the process for decision and the need for a decision in favor of military action in respect of syria then we would take it notwithstanding the fact that it was going to be unpopular i mean i can tell you that in my own constituency parliamentary district the military action against iraq wasn't popular at the time it was taken but i made every effort to explain why

. >> jack straw. >> thank you, mr. speaker. may i press the prime minister on this issue of relations with iran? with respect to them from his previous answer sounded as if you take in their account of the fact that since our embassy was outrageously sacked by ahmadinejad, there had been an election in iran. however, imperfect. that has led to a different individual, the coming president who to my certain knowledge is someone the west and the bridge by minister can deal with. can ask them to look very carefully with the foreign secretary at home we take steps now to improve relations with iran, identified those matters, interests and try to get a vote in solving -- get them involvou? >> i agree -- a captioning performed by mediacaptioning services mediacaptioning.com to reform is a positive step and i've written to president rouhani to raise a series of issues that need to be settled between britain and iran and above all we need is a progress on what president rouhani has said is important, which is trying to come to an agreem

. >> jack straw. >> thank you, mr. speaker. pressed the prime minister on issues that they ran with respect to him from his previous answer sounded as if he taken no account of the fact defense that since her embassy was outrageously fact by ahmadinejad, there's been an election in iran. however imperfect, that has led to a different individual becoming president, who to my certain knowledge is someone the british prime minister can deal with. could ask them to look carefully at how we take steps now to improve relations with iran, identified as matters of common interest and try to get them involved in solving syria? >> i agree that the election of a president who has a greater commitment to reform is a positive step and i've written to president whereupon he to raise a series of issues that need to be settled between britain and iran and above all we need to see progress on the president for honda himself has said is important, which is trying to come to an agreement for iran gives up the idea of nuclear weapons and in return