Iran warns UK that providing US access to British bases is ‘aggression’
The Iranian foreign ministry says it told the UK that allowing the US to use British military bases will be treated as “participation in aggression”.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his British counterpart Yvette Cooper during a phone call that UK assistance to the US would be an “escalation of the situation”.
In a statement posted on his Telegram channel, Araghchi criticised the “negative and biased approach of the United Kingdom and some European countries towards this blatant aggression, which violated international law”.
He emphasised Iran’s right to self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter after being targeted by the US and Israel and said Iran only attacked neighbouring countries to strike American bases.
Araghchi also criticised the UK’s failure to condemn Israeli strikes on Iran’s South Pars gas field despite condemning Iran’s retaliation against Qatar’s refinery.
American bombers have been spotted at bases in Gloucestershire in England, with doubts being raised as to what they are being used for and if it is the purely "defensive" action that Prime Minister Keir Starmer claims.