{"id":4610,"date":"2026-04-01T09:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:40:44","slug":"iran-could-target-one-uk-county-as-chilling-warning-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4610","title":{"rendered":"Iran could target one UK county as chilling warning issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>The ambassador&#8217;s message is clear<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Iran has warned that it may soon begin to attack UK-based targets, amid rising fears that the conflict in the Middle East conflict could next spill onto British soil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>If tensions continue to escalate, any UK bases tied to US military operations could fall within range, according to Seyed Ali Mousavi, Iran\u2019s ambassador to London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia were already used by American forces to launch strikes on Iran since fighting broke out last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>While last month, Iran fired two missiles towards Diego Garcia, one which was intercepted while the other failed mid-air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>This marked its first confirmed use of long-range ballistic weapons in the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Initially, Downing Street had pushed back on US-affiliated operations at the RAF Fairford base in Gloucestershire and the RAF base in Diego Garcia, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected a request from US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump even called Starmer a \u201closer\u201d in conversations with friends, as the Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>However, Starmer\u2019s stance later shifted after Iran moved to restrict the key shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Through its ambassador to London, Iran has now issued a chilling warning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full flex flex-col items-center max-w-[659px] 970:max-w-[630px] my-5\">\n<div class=\"w-[345px] tablet:w-[618px]\"><img alt=\"Article image\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"618\" height=\"329\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto object-contain rounded-[10px]\" style=\"color:transparent\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 345px, 618px\" 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Our military will decide how to respond based on Britain\u2019s actions. All options are being kept open, but we will act carefully\u201d, Mousavi told Times Radio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>According to the Iranian ambassador, the decision to allow American bombers to launch from RAF Fairford could change things, even though he praised Starmer\u2019s \u201cinitial position\u201d not to get involved in the \u201ccriminal act of the American side and the Israeli regime\u201d in striking Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mousavi told the UK to be \u201cvery careful\u201d, as he warned about Iran&#8217;s response if the UK were to get further involved in the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cWe are very careful regarding for our activities and as well as, we do expect for the other people, including the British government, to be very delicate, to be very careful for their own activities\u201d, he said in a warning to Britain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Iran #target #county #chilling #warning #issued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ambassador&#8217;s message is clear Iran has warned that it may soon begin to attack UK-based targets, amid rising fears that the conflict in the Middle East conflict could next spill onto British soil. If tensions continue to escalate, any UK bases tied to US military operations could fall within range, according to Seyed Ali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1514,2778,4737,613,1722,1883,167,1633,1645],"class_list":{"0":"post-4610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chilling","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-issued","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-target","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-warning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}