UK foreign secretary condemns Iran’s ‘reckless threats’ after strike towards US-UK base

Diego Garcia, the site of the UK-US military base in the Chagos Islands. Yvette Cooper said the UK would continue to support defensive action. Photograph: NASA Archive/Alamy

The foreign secretary has condemned Iran’s strikes on a joint US-UK military base on the island of Diego Garcia, while stressing the UK has “taken a different position from the US and Israel” on the conflict.

Yvette Cooper said ministers wanted to see a swift resolution to the war, adding the government was supporting defensive action against the “reckless Iranian threats”.