Two missiles were launched by Iran toward Cyprus, British Defense Minister John Healey told the BBC on Sunday morning, adding that country may not have “necessarily” been the intended target.
Thousands of British military personnel (known also as the British Forces Cyprus) are stationed at the UK Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia on Cyprus.
He also noted that 300 British troops had been stationed near the military base Iran struck in Bahrain on Saturday, with some of the soldiers being “several hundred yards away.”
“It demonstrates how our bases, our personnel, military and civilians at the moment are at risk with a regime that is increasingly indiscriminate, widespread and uncontrolling in the attacks its mounting,” he said.
According to the BBC, Healey declined to say whether the UK backed the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, reitering that Britain “played no part” in the attacks.
Healey also told the BBC that he believed the UK shared in the goal that “Iran should never have a nuclear weapon,” adding that it is “for the US to set out the legal basis of the action that it took.”
This is a developing story.