{"id":530012,"date":"2026-03-10T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530012\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:43:27","slug":"how-keir-starmers-iran-decision-signals-a-shift-in-foreign-policy-and-a-warning-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530012\/","title":{"rendered":"How Keir Starmer\u2019s Iran decision signals a shift in foreign policy and a warning for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/europe\/we-don-t-need-your-aircraft-carriers-trump-starmer-spat-deepens-20260308-p5o8gx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer\u2019s<\/a> resistance to US President Donald Trump over Iran looks like principled foreign policy. Look closer, and you\u2019ll find a Labour Party fighting for its life at home and a warning for every establishment party that has outsourced its working-class base.<\/p>\n<p>When Starmer refused to allow US forces to use British military bases for the initial strikes on Iran, the world\u2019s foreign policy commentariat reached immediately for the familiar frame: NATO tensions, the fracturing of the special relationship, the emergence of a more independent European security posture. All of those things are real. None of them are the most important explanation for what Starmer did.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s resistance to US President Donald Trump over Iran looks like principled foreign policy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-530012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}