0h 6min, mar 1, 2026 y - UK to Allow US to use Bases

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The UK has agreed to a US request to use British military bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

But the prime minister said the UK had learned lessons from the "mistakes of Iraq", and was not involved in the initial strikes on Iran and "will not join offensive action now".

The BBC understands the US is likely to use RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for strikes on Iranian missile sites.

The PM made the announcement, which the Telegraph reported US President Donald Trump said "took far too long", just hours before a British RAF base in Cyprus was hit by a drone strike on Sunday night with no casualties reported.

Investigations are under way to establish where it was fired from.

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