2024-02-02T04:53:40+00:00
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/ British Defense Minister Grant Shapps announced in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that Britain will not join the US retaliatory strikes against targets including Iranian personnel and facilities inside Iraq and Syria.
The minister said that London wants to avoid a “large-scale regional conflict” and calls on Tehran to “show control over Iranian-backed forces in Syria and Iraq,” according to what was published by the Russia Today satellite channel website.
Shapps indicated that Britain will continue to cooperate with the United States “in the war against the Yemeni Ansar Allah (Houthis) movement to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea.” At the same time, he denied information that the London authorities are considering the possibility of sending a British aircraft carrier to the combat zone.
The US authorities had previously said that US forces in Jordan were attacked by the Iraqi Islamic Resistance, and according to the Pentagon, this strike resulted in the killing of 3 US soldiers and the wounding of more than 40 others.
The United States blames Iran for what happened, and according to CBS, the US administration, as a retaliatory measure, approved plans to strike Iranian targets and military personnel stationed in Iraq and Syria.