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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

UK ‘took far too long’ to let US use its airbases to attack Iran, Trump says

Donald Trump wearing a USA baseball hat
Trump said that the delay ‘probably never happened between our countries before’. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

The UK “took far too long” to allow US forces to use its airbases to attack Iran, Donald Trump has said.

The US president added that he was “very disappointed” in Keir Starmer over the British government’s deal to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius as a means to preserve the status of the UK-US airbase on Diego Garcia, part of the Indian Ocean archipegalo.

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