US EditionForeign Secretary Says Starmer Is ‘Learning Lessons’ From Iraq Amid US-UK Dispute
The UK supports US defensive actions against Iran from British bases while emphasizing lessons from Iraq to protect national interests and citizens, Foreign Secretary Cooper said.
- Sunday, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said 'I think the point is to make sure that actually we learn the lessons from some of the things that went wrong in Iraq', emphasizing the UK's cautious approach.
- At a private event on Friday, Sir Tony Blair said the UK should have backed the US, while President Donald Trump criticised Starmer on Truth Social.
- The government authorised Americans to launch 'defensive' action from UK bases, and the Ministry of Defence placed one of the UK's two carriers on advanced readiness on Saturday while deploying four Typhoon jets from RAF Coningsby and HMS Dragon to defend RAF Akrotiri.
- Cooper said 'sometimes we will disagree' as both countries act in their national interest, arguing support for initial strikes was not British interest while defending measures against Iranian retaliation and rejecting diplomacy via social media.
- The US president has repeatedly said the military assets 'would have been nice' two weeks ago but now they 'don't need them,' amid ongoing tensions.
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Fmr. UK PM Tony Blair Presses Starmer to Back Trump on Iran
U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper rejected the view of former Prime Minister Tony Blair saying current PM Keir Starmer was right to apply lessons from Iraq and to act only where Britain judged it to be in the national interest. She said Britain should help defend against Iranian retaliation but not automatically take part in offensive action.
Foreign secretary defends Keir Starmer saying he is 'learning lessons from Iraq' after Trump and Blair remarks
Yvette Cooper backed the prime minister for largely staying out of the Midde East conflict following comments by Sir Tony Blair and more criticism from Donald Trump.
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