{"id":486273,"date":"2026-03-20T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486273\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:19:08","slug":"iran-warns-u-k-that-allowing-u-s-access-to-bases-makes-it-a-participant-in-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486273\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Warns U.K. That Allowing U.S. Access to Bases Makes It a &#8216;Participant in Aggression&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Starmer has defended his initial decision and maintained his stance that Britain will not participate in offensive operations, but he has authorized defensive support for U.K. bases and regional partners, including the RAF base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7382076\/british-base-hit-iran-war-drones-united-kingdom-terror-threat\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">come under attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Trump has also criticized other NATO allies, after several countries resisted his call for them to send warships to help secure the Strait. Trump labeled the response a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/03\/17\/trump-iran-war-nato-allies-strait-of-hormuz\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cvery foolish mistake.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">On Friday, Trump hit out at NATO nations once more, calling them \u201ccowards\u201d for not joining the military operations in Iran.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cWithout the USA, NATO is a paper tiger! They didn\u2019t want to join the fight to stop a nuclear-powered Iran,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116261796648776538\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThey complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don\u2019t want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. So easy for them to do, with so little risk.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer has defended his initial decision and maintained his stance that Britain will not participate in offensive operations,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,595,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-486273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}