Tony Blair, British former Prime Minister, talking to BBC Radio 4 about the Iraqi invasion in 2003 and the possible military intervention on Syria's regime, The Telegraph stated.

Blair believes that their decision on invading Iraq in 2003 was a right decision to prevent civil wars like what is happening in Syria as part of the pro-democracy revolutions in a number of Arab countries.

Blair states that if they had not overthrown Saddam from power by force, the Arab Spring would reach Iraq as well and says, “If it had come to Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, it was going to come to Iraq and you would be facing what you're facing in Syria now in Iraq.”

On opposition voting against British military intervention in Syria, Blair says that this voting would not 'cancel' the need for such an intervention to change the consequences.

“Now, we have not intervened in Syria. The consequences are, in my view, terrible and will be a huge problem not just for the Middle East region but for us in the years to come.”