Seyed Ali Mousavi, Ambassador of Iran to the United Kingdom, has said that the country has the right to self-defence if the UK directly joins the US-Israel attacks against the Middle Eastern countries.
Iran said that the British government and others need to be “very delicate, very careful” in their actions.
The ambassador said it was “good” that the UK was not “involved with this aggression”, adding he believed the British government had learnt lessons from the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The Iranian president apologised to its Gulf neighbours on Saturday but Mousavi made clear Iran would continue to attack US bases if strikes on Iran continued.
Mousavi said that “if facilities or properties or bases are used against the Iranian nation”, they would be considered “legitimate targets”.
UK lets US use bases
Earlier, four US bombers landed at an RAF base in Britain to carry out “specific defensive operations” to stop Iran firing missiles into the Middle East, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The UK’s armed forces chief, Richard Knighton, said he expected the US to launch missions from the Gloucestershire base “within the next few days”. The prime minister agreed on Sunday to allow the US to strike Iran defensively from Fairford and from Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.
On Saturday afternoon, the Ministry of Defence issued an update on its operations in the Middle East, which said the US had “started using British bases for specific defensive operations to prevent Iran firing missiles into the region”.
