ARCHIVAL PHOTO: Naval Aviation Base on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. © Historical / Getty Images
Iran denied that he would attack a common American-British military base in the Indian Ocean, informed Al Jazeera, citing a high-ranking Iranian official.
Located on the distant island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos archipelago, the military base was allegedly attacked by 2 ballistic missiles on Friday morning local time.
None of the alleged missiles hit a base where about 2,500 people, mostly Americans, are stationed.
Washington described this base as ‘almost essential platform’ for operations in the mediate East, South Asia and East Africa.
British abroad Minister Yvette Cooper condemned the incident, calling it ‘Vicious threats from Iran’, while stressing that the UK will not participate in offensive operations and will limit its function to defence support.
Iran carried out retaliatory attacks on many U.S. bases in the mediate East and launched drones towards the British Akrotiri Air Base in the south of Cyprus, causing reportedly insignificant harm to the facility.
Downing Street reported on Friday that ministers had allowed the United States to usage British bases to carry out attacks on Iran.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer nevertheless rejected the invitation of US president Donald Trump to send warships to the Strait of Ormuz.
U.S. president Donald Trump said Britain ‘should have worked much faster’, And Iranian abroad Minister Abbas Araghchi accused Starmer of "putting British lives in danger".
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/635779-iran-denies-targeting-us-uk/
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