UK Signals It Won’t Let US Use Bases for Strikes on Iran Energy

The UK government signaled it won’t let the US use British military bases for strikes on Iranian energy or civilian infrastructure after President Donald Trump threatened an escalation of operations against Tehran.

Asked Tuesday about Trump’s threat to bomb the Islamic republic’s bridges and power plants if Iran doesn’t agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesman Tom Wells pointed to Britain’s position since the early days of the war that the US could only use its bases at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for what the UK government has called “defensive” missions.