Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

UK sends destroyer, helicopters to Cyprus after Iran attacks​

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the UK is sending helicopters with counter-drone capabilities to Cyprus and deploying the air defence destroyer HMS Dragon to the region.

“The UK is fully committed to the security of Cyprus and British military personnel based there,” said Starmer in a post.

“We’re continuing our defensive operations and I’ve just spoken with the president of Cyprus to let him know that we are sending helicopters with counter drone capabilities and HMS Dragon is to be deployed to the region.”
 
ghazi52 said:
The notion that the Israelis were going to do it anyway, and so we had to do it as well – if that’s the case, then there’s a really serious conversation to be had here in the United States about US and Israeli interests, and where those are aligned and where they diverge…
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What’s this bullocks? Master & slave are always on the same page. Their interests never diverge… 🙄
 

British F-35 jets shoot down drones over Jordan, Iraq and Qatar - MoD says
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A grey plan with two workers standing by it in high-vis


Image source,UK MOD

An image of one of the F-35s shared by the Ministry of Defence
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has shared new images and video footage on its website of British F-35 jets, which it says have shot down hostile drones over Jordan, Iraq and Qatar.

The MoD says it's the first time British F-35s have shot down targets during an active operation.

An F-35 is a fighter jet, designed to be incredibly difficult to detect or track.

UK forces are "actively defending partners across the region as part of co-ordinated defensive action", it says.
 

London and Washington's increasingly fractious relationship on full display
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Ben Wright
BBC Political correspondent

What we used to call the special relationship has never looked less so... at least not in recent years.

The increasingly fractious relationship between London and Washington is on full display here over the Chagos deal, which Trump has been blowing hot and cold about for the past few months.

But it's also specifically about the United Kingdom's decision not to grant the United States permission to use Diego Garcia, the US-UK joint base in the Chagos Islands, to launch bombing raids in those first attacks on Iran on Saturday.

The prime minister's reasons: he doesn't think that the US-Israeli effort is lawful and he doesn't think there's a plan underpinning it.

Twenty-four hours or so later, he said the base could be used for defensive actions to defend UK interests in the region.
 


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Building linked to Iran leadership watchdog destroyed in​


By Shayan Sardarizadeh

Two videos filmed in the city of Qom today show the aftermath of a strike on the secretariat building of the Assembly of Experts, Iran’s main leadership watchdog.

The clips, which BBC Verify has confirmed were filmed near Qom’s Basij Square, show the secretariat building has been almost completely destroyed. A building nearby was also heavily damaged in the attack.

According to Iran’s constitution, the Assembly of Experts is made up of 88 senior clerics and is tasked with appointing the next supreme leader following the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday.

Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency reports the building was old and not being used for the assembly’s sessions. State broadcaster IRIB says “these buildings had been evacuated beforehand” and no casualties had been reported.

The remains of a building, rubble is strewn everywhere
 
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Well - the opportunity window is there for some local fun for him..
 

Trump criticises allies as he discusses Iran's future
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A wide shot of Donald Trump's briefing in the White House


US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's White House news conference has now finished. But here are some of the key lines we heard:

  • The US president says he believed Iran was "going to attack first" after negotiations with the US failed to reach agreement on its nuclear programme
  • "Just about everything's been knocked out in Iran," Trump also says
  • After eliminating the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Trump says the worst case scenario in Iran is that "somebody takes over who's as bad as the previous person". This leaves questions unanswered about future leadership, our White House correspondent writes
  • Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah, is one option but Trump said the best case scenario is that "somebody already there" takes over
Trump also heavily criticised two US allies, accusing the United Kingdom and Spain of being "very uncooperative" since the US launched strikes on Iran.

 

No official response from Downing Street after Trump's scathing remarks
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Chris Mason
BBC Political editor

Downing Street are resisting the temptation to offer an on the record response to President Trump’s broadside.

Instead, senior folk I talk to are repeating the thrust of the argument we heard from Keir Starmer in Parliament yesterday, when he said he was a British prime minister acting in the British national interest, with a sense of where British public opinion is.

A poll by YouGov suggests substantially more people in Britain are opposed to America’s military action than they are in favour of it.
 
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