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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

David Lammy refuses to say if UK supported US strikes on Iran nuclear facilities

The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy
The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, tried to focus on urging Iran to return to the negotiating table on its nuclear programme. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/Reuters

The UK foreign secretary has repeatedly refused to say if the UK supported the US military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday or whether they were legal.

Interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday for the first time since the US launched airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, David Lammy also sidestepped the question of whether he supported recent social media posts by Donald Trump that seemed to favour regime change in Tehran, saying that in all his discussions in the White House the sole focus had been on military targets.

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