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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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