{"id":327775,"date":"2026-03-08T04:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/327775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:07:12","slug":"donald-trump-criticizes-keir-starmer-for-lack-of-support-in-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/327775\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump criticizes Keir Starmer for lack of support in Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump<\/a> said on Saturday that Britain is giving “serious thought” to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East, but added that the US does not need them to win the war with Iran<\/a>, in the latest clash between the military allies.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer,<\/a> suggesting this week that he helped “ruin” the countries’ historically close relationship after London blocked the US’s initial use \u200cof British bases to attack Iran.<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he “will remember” the lack of British support during the conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n

“The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don\u2019t need them any longer \u2014 But we will remember. We don\u2019t need people that join Wars after we\u2019ve already won!”<\/p>\n

The social media post comes after the British Defense Ministry said on Saturday that it was preparing the Prince of Wales aircraft carrier for possible deployment.<\/p>\n

However, no final decision has been taken about whether to deploy the aircraft carrier to the Middle East, a British official said.<\/p>\n

Starmer has defended his decision not to allow US forces to use British bases to support initial strikes on Iran, saying he needed to be satisfied that any military action was legal and well planned.<\/p>\n

He later granted US forces permission to use British bases for what he called defensive strikes against Iranian missiles<\/a> in storage depots or launchers.<\/p>\n

Starmer earlier this year criticized Trump’s desire to buy Greenland and said his comments that European troops avoided frontline combat in the war in Afghanistan were “frankly appalling.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Britain is giving “serious thought” to sending two aircraft carriers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5355,54,42,87,5357,43,157282,157283,40,38,41,39,1299],"class_list":{"0":"post-327775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-keir-starmer","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-operation-epic-fury","15":"tag-operation-roaring-lion","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}