Iran threatens Britain and says RAF Fairford is a 'legitimate target' after US used base to launch B1 bomber raid
Iran has warned that Britain's RAF Fairford is a 'legitimate target' after the US used the base to launch a B1 bomber raid. It marks the first such mission launched from the UK since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister.It was also the first time the US has carried out a B1 mission since fighting in Iran resumed nearly two weeks ago. Burnham had agreed to continue Starmer’s policy of allowing Washington to use the air base in Gloucestershire, as well as Diego Garcia airfield in the Chagos Islands for 'defensive strikes', according to Bloomberg.
- ▪Iran has warned that Britain's RAF Fairford is a 'legitimate target' after the US used the base to launch a B1 bomber raid.
- ▪It marks the first such mission launched from the UK since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister.It was also the first time the US has carried out a B1 mission since fighting in Iran resumed nearly two weeks ago.
- ▪Burnham had agreed to continue Starmer’s policy of allowing Washington to use the air base in Gloucestershire, as well as Diego Garcia airfield in the Chagos Islands for 'defensive strikes', according to Bloomberg.
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Iran has warned that Britain's RAF Fairford is a 'legitimate target' after the US used the base to launch a B1 bomber raid. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a statement threatening the 'British regime' with attacks if it continues to support America's war effort against Tehran.'The aggressive US military, which had been using cruise missiles from its ships in the Indian Ocean in its aggressions after the official resumption of the war, turned to using B1 aircraft flying from Fairford Air Base in England [...] as the missile reserves of the aforementioned ships ran out,' the statement said, according to the IRNA news agency.'As Foreign Ministry officials have also clarified, any base used to invade Iranian territory is our legitimate target,' it added.According to US…
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