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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Harriette Boucher

Allowing Trump to use UK bases is ‘putting British lives in danger’, top Iran official warns

  • Iran’s foreign minister has said Keir Starmer is "putting British lives in danger" by allowing Donald Trump the use of UK military bases during the Iran war.
  • Abbas Araghchi warned Iran would exercise its right to self-defence as a result.
  • In a post on social media, he said Starmer is “ignoring his own people” as “vast majority of the British People do not want any part in the Israel-U.S. war of choice on Iran”.
  • The decision followed a UK government meeting on Middle East developments.
  • Downing Street insisted any such action would be "collective self-defence" and would not draw the UK into a wider conflict.
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