UK’s defence secretary John Healey revealed that two missiles from Iran were fired in the direction of Cyprus, where British military bases are.
“We are pretty sure they weren’t targeted at our bases,” said Healey. But he added that “it shows how indiscriminate” the Iranian retaliation is.
He also noted that 300 UK military personnel were close to the targets in Bahrain.
“Some of them were in several hundred yards of the missile strikes,” he revealed.
The defence secretary was speaking a day after Sir Keir Starmer revealed that the UK had ordered ‘planes in the sky’ over the Middle East on defensive operations.
Healey repeated the prime minister’s calls to end its missile strikes and ‘step back from its increasing uncontrolled indiscriminate attacks in the region’ and ‘give up its weapons programs.’
It came as the US and Israel launched waves of missile strikes on Iran in pre-emptive actions, taking out military infrastructure and the country’s leadership, including Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
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