The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, announced that his government authorized the United States to use British military bases to launch defensive attacks aimed at Iranian missiles and their launch platforms. The decision responds to a formal request from Washington in the context of the growing escalation with Iran.
In a video message released on Sunday, Starmer specified that the United Kingdom did not participate in the initial attacks against Iranian territory and that it will not join offensive actions. “We were not involved in the first attacks and will not take part in offensive actions now,” he said. However, he defended cooperation with the United States as a measure of collective self-defense aimed at protecting British and allied lives in the Gulf region
.The prime minister explained that the use of British bases has a “specific and limited” purpose: to destroy Iranian missiles in their reservoirs or to neutralize launchers before they can be used. As he noted, the measure seeks to prevent Iran from continuing to fire projectiles that could hit civilians and countries that have not been directly involved in the initial operations










