Despite Starmers lies, the UK is at war with Iran
Keir Starmer’s government is playing an ever-increasing role in the destruction of Iran, despite his claims that the UK was “playing no role”.
The government’s lines about “regional defensive operations” are becoming harder to believe, as the UK’s actions appear to be contributing to the deaths of thousands of innocent Iranians.
British involvement under Starmer
Britain’s involvement began in January, when the UK and the US began moving weaponry to the Middle East.
According to Declassified UK:
Britain moved “defensive assets” to Cyprus and Qatar in January and February “to ensure we were in a heightened state of readiness of any conflict beginning”, Starmer said last week.
The assets included fighter jets, air defence missiles, advanced radar and systems to take down drones.
Since then, the UK has allowed the US to use several of its air bases. The US has stationed one fleet of military planes at RAF Fairford in Gloucester.
But importantly, Starmer has only approved “defensive” US action from UK bases.
Despite this, the US military has been loading large explosives into B-1 Lancer bombers at the base.
American 🇺🇸 B-1 bombers being loaded at UK 🇬🇧 air bases, with 2000lb ‘bunker busters’
Forget ‘defensive’ action
Starmer has taken the UK 🇬🇧 to war without so much as a debate.pic.twitter.com/zVn3ShUWxO
— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) March 12, 2026
According to Declassified UK, US Planes have been passing through RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, both in Suffolk, as well as Prestwick civilian airport in Scotland.
In total, over 100 fighter jets have left RAF Lakenheath for the Middle East since January.
At least one of the jets from Lakenheath was among those which crashed in Kuwait.
‘Reality of war’
British MP Sarah Sackman also claimed that the US strike, which murdered 165 little girls, was just a “reality of war“. The reality is actually more like an illegal and unprovoked attack, which violates international law.
Ultimately, this plays into the hands of the US and Israel. Instead of condemning their actions, Sackman has practically given the genocidal maniacs permission to continue.
NEW: British minister Sarah Sackman has refused to declare the Iran school massacre – which killed 165 people, including many children – a war crime.
She said it was the “realities of war”https://t.co/bFvoYWXpy6 pic.twitter.com/4ZutHzKBes
— Imran Mulla (@Imran_posts) March 10, 2026
Starmer — Diego Garcia
The UK has a military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Importantly, the UK is illegally occupying the island.
In true British and US colonial fashion, both countries evicted the entire population to establish a joint UK — US military base which has operated since the 1970s.
The US used it for strikes on Afghanistan from 2001, and both countries used it to bomb Iraq from 2003.
Now it appears that a US submarine, operating from the base, was used to fire two torpedoes at the unarmed Iranian frigate. It then sank off the coast of Sri Lanka.
Clearly, that is not a defensive operation.
A US submarine operating from UK base Diego Garcia, firing two torpedoes at an Iranian Frigate, destroying it and killing most on board – the first operation of its kind since WW2 – is not a defensive operation.
The British government is at war with Iran and lying to its people.
— Joshua Virasami 🇲🇺🇵🇸 (@JoshuaVirasami) March 4, 2026
The UK is also allowing the US to use its military base on Cyprus – another country the UK previously colonised illegally.
The BBC reported that the UK was not allowing the US to use its bases in Cyprus for “defensive” strikes on Iranian missile sites. However, American U-2 spy planes are reportedly using the site.
The UK has also now sent HMS Dragon and two Wildcat helicopters to the eastern Mediterranean — supposedly to ‘protect’ RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
However, as the Canary previously reported:
The HMS Dragon is fitted with a Sea Viper missile system. It can launch eight missiles in under 10 seconds and guide up to 16 missiles simultaneously. Wildcat helicopters from the 815 Naval Air Squadron, equipped with Martlet missiles capable of taking out drones, will assist it.
On March 6, a British pilot flying from RAF Akrotiri shot down Iranian drones over Jordan, Qatar and Iraq.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence told the BBC:
Just this week, we have flown Typhoon and F-35 fighter jets on sorties around the region, shooting down Iranian drones and defending innocent civilians from Iran’s indiscriminate attacks.
Why aren’t we letting the US and Israel fight their own battles?
Weapons
Additionally, the UK is still selling millions of pounds’ worth of weapons to Israel.
It provides around 15% of the components in the F-35 fighter jets, which Israel uses in airstrikes across Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.
According to Oxfam:
This includes the rear fuselage and active interceptor system, ejector seats, aircraft tyres, refuelling probe, laser targeting system, and the fan propulsion system.
The UK government supplies these parts to Israel via a global programme led by the US company Lockheed Martin.
To make matters worse, the UK produces components for Israeli armed and surveillance drones. Factories in the UK make them and then send them to Israel for assembly. The drones are used for both spying missions and to attack civilians.
We can presume that the drones are also now being used to attack civilians in Lebanon and Iran.
From letting the US use British air bases to sending parts for fighter jets and drones to Israel, the UK is involved in Israel and the US’s illegal war against Iran, whether Starmer admits it or not.
Was it not bad enough that the UK was complicit in the murder of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza? Now, it’s also complicit in the murders of Iranians and Lebanese people.
Starmer has even more blood on his hands.
Feature image via BFBS Forces News/YouTube
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Starmer should be walking away from war. Trump fell into the same bear trap as Putin, too big for his boots with no proper plan of what should be done, or how this will finally end and there is no plan of how to climb out of his own trap! And the sensible world leaders are now turning their backs on his and Israel’s disastrous war, so should Starmer.
For years Strimmer has been directed over the kitchen Table and persuaded further by friday tea with the in-laws. As for Sarah Sackman, we need to look at her a little bit closer, trips to Israel; youthful exuberances at summer camp in the IDF maybe. When these politicians cease to see little children in particular and civilians in general as “collateral” in yet another oil grab by whitey supremacists and their new colonial club members in the middle east.
This has set the stage for a retribution on the Western European rational enlightenment myth that will last for many lifetimes. Is this anything more than another crusade. A sorry sad situation where it is crucial that our politicians declare their allegiances. Is it helpful that the LFI all have ready access to Israeli citizenship, some like Stammer’s and Sackman already have dual citizenship. For too long Israeli passport holders have been hiding behind other nationalities whilst clearly setting their colony above the nations that they claim as home.
Apartheid and its apologists must be exposed and shown for the flawed humans they are. Let us be clear this isn’t Jewish this is Israel and its Zionist supporters. Zionism is a white supremacist gangster totem that by qualification and exploitation of the holocaust tragedy the miserable excuses for humans use to justify the theft of another peoples land and the further genocidal abuse of a people give claim to join the oppressors club.
Truth and reconcilliation will never right the wrongs of a genocidal hate campaign that even the Fragile whiteys of Southern Africa never entertained under their apartheids. The battle we have is to spread the message that not all white people are slavers, colonialists and exploiters any more than all Jews are Zionists, even more that not all Israelis are murdering fascists. Proportion is that it is time for the cowardly compliant two thirds to join the brave third that say no to the mistreatment of others. Everyone that signs up to the side of humanity reduces the terrified and raging Whitey coward’s world by two.
Did the UK Establishment ever see a genocidal and illegal Western war they didn’t like? I was horrified to watch an interview recently with a decent-enough retired UK Admiral, who was on the ball about much, but then repeated the oft-claimed lie that “The UK was not involved in Vietnam”!
One can only imagine that he was either outright lying, or possibly even worse – even the UK MILITARY COLLEGES are lying to our future military leaders about past engagements.
In actual fact, the UK invaded Vietnam BEFORE the US got involved as the French were getting ass-whooped, and surprise surprise we totally failed and made a bad situation considerably worse. And as we ran away the US came in after us, and we know the story from then on.
So there’s not a single time the UK refused to join the Western Empire in one of the multitudes of illegal, genocidal Imperialist wars.
Why would we expect this time to be any different? ESPECIALLY with these utterly mendacious, corrupt, two-faced lying cunts in charge?
Needless to say, once we get inevitable “blowback”, the regime and their corporate media will shout to the heavens that we are “INNOCENT ZOMGZ!!” – but the blood of thousands of innocent Iranians will be on our hands.
I understand the educational system is happy to lie about what money is & where it comes from (it’s Govt IOUs & it’s issued by banks, central bank included), preferring instead to avoid the subject entirely. It’s surely credible then that we’d be taught a false history too, one which suits those who determine curriculums. Oh yes,… https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy
And there’s me thinking Harold Wilson kept us out of the Vietnam war.