🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi is right. And the numbers confirm it — 60% (the 40 percent who support is likely inflated) of Britons oppose allowing the US to launch strikes on Iran from UK bases.  Keir Starmer’s government lawyers told him this war didn’t meet the legal definition of self-defence under the UN Charter. His own legal advisers said no. The British government initially concluded that US and Israeli strikes on Iran did not meet the legal definition of self-defence. Then opened the gates anyway. Diego Garcia. RAF Fairford. Akrotiri — the base that was then promptly struck by an Iranian drone one hour after he made the announcement. So why support the Epstien coalition? Oh Mandelson... Never mind. This is the same Keir Starmer who ran for the Labour leadership promising a break from the Blair wars, promising a government that listened to its people, promising that Britain would not be dragged into conflicts for other nations’ interests. He stood in Parliament and called his decision not to support the initial strikes “deliberate” — “I stand by it,” he said.  Then he reversed it. Because Washington asked. Because the "special" vassal relationship demands that Britain perform obedience on schedule regardless of what the British people want, what British lawyers advise, or what British soldiers billeted 200 metres from Iranian missile strikes in Bahrain prefer. The vast majority of British people want no part of this war. Their prime minister couldn't care less about inconvenient democracy.
