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The UK has agreed to a US request to use British military bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

But the prime minister said the UK had learned lessons from the "mistakes of Iraq", and was not involved in the initial strikes on Iran and "will not join offensive action now".

Sir Keir said the basis of the decision to accept the US request was the "collective self-defence" of allies and protecting British lives, accusing Iran of pursuing a "scorched-earth strategy".

The BBC understands the US is likely to use RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for strikes on Iranian missile sites.

In his video statement on Sunday, Sir Keir said the US would use UK bases for the "specific and limited defensive purpose" of destroying Iran's missiles "at source".

He added that the move was in accordance with international law, and the UK government had published what it said was a summary of its legal advice.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Seems pretty consistent for a Government that unwaveringly supports Genocide as long as the aggressors are of the "right" ethnicity and the victims are not.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

How many hours it took them to dump his phone memory and find some compromising materials ? 6 or more ?

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

UK showing why it had no spine to stay in EU

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

Because Andrew was merely the crown jewel of Mossad's UK blackmail operations? We all understand that's Israel's control lever here right? Rich people on tape raping and killing kids.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago

Germany allowed logistics for this war, so UK is not the only one.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay let's be honest here, no major actor in the EU has anything resembling spine; they all go weak in the knees when Uncle Sam calls.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spain appears to have a spine

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah but it's not really a major EU actor AFAIK. They're important to the EU but don't really shape its policies in the same way, say, France or Germany do. This is probably due to aforementioned spine, but either way if I'm not mistaken Spanish priorities aren't very relevant to EU foreign policy. I actually added "major" specifically to exclude Spain, though it is debatable whether that was accurate or not.

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spineless Starmer and his Tory Lite cohorts...

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

The poodle tradition is still strong

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 day ago

Here is how you stop Iran targeting you. You tell the US to fuck off and leave.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago

Stitch your lips to our assholes because you are now in our murder suicide pact with Israel.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 9 points 1 day ago

yay. let's all lick dumpy's boots!

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 day ago

In other news, Iran today struck an RAF base in Cyprus

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/reports-of-possible-iranian-drone-impact-at-british-air-base/

Is this when the kids say FAFO?

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

slaves doing slavery