US EditionIs the UK About to Get Dragged Into Iran-Israel Conflict?
- The UK is facing potential involvement in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict amid ongoing UK-US diplomatic and military discussions in June 2025.
- This situation arises after Israel launched attacks on Iran's suspected nuclear facilities without informing the UK, while the US considers military action requiring UK base permissions.
- The UK holds strategic military assets in the Middle East including RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus with Typhoon jets, a 100-strong troop presence in Iraq, and the Diego Garcia base jointly operated with the US.
- Attorney General Richard Hermer advises UK involvement must be defensive and warns offensive action without parliamentary approval may breach international law, while the government remains cautious.
- If the UK approves US airbase use, the conflict may implicate Britain through retaliation risks including missile attacks, suggesting serious legal, political, and security implications ahead.
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What UK involvement in Iran could look like – and the political questions it raises
Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-NDAt the time of writing, US President Donald Trump is deliberating over whether to join Israel’s air campaign to destroy Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme. This is already a contentious issue within Washington DC and the Trump administration. But if the president decides to take the US into a war with Iran, it will have significant implications for the US’s allies, not least the UK. As the…
Craig Murray - War With Iran - Brave New Europe
Why Britain is so keen for a war against Iran Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s blog For 18 years, the Iranian nuclear programme has been one of the top 10 targeting objectives of the US intelligence services. In 2007 they first conducted a formal inter-agency review. It is done every year. This is not a minor process. A great deal o…
Is the UK about to get dragged in to Iran-Israel conflict? - Kahawatungu
Is this, some will be wondering, 2003 all over again? In 2003 Britain joined the US in a highly controversial military campaign against Iraq in a quest to rid it of its supposed arsenal of “weapons of mass destruction”. These turned out to have all been destroyed years previously. As America’s closest but junior ally, Britain is almost certain to be affected in some way by what happens now in the Middle East. If Donald Trump decides to commit US…
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