‘Simply not true’ UK is being dragged into Iraq-style conflict, says foreign secretary
Yvette Cooper says plans under consideration to evacuate about 300,000 Britons from Middle East amid Iran warUS-Israel war on Iran – live updatesIt is “simply not true” that the UK is being dragged into another Iraq-style conflict in the Middle East, Yvette Cooper has said, after an RAF base...
<p>Yvette Cooper says plans under consideration to evacuate about 300,000 Britons from Middle East amid Iran war</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/02/us-israel-war-iran-live-updates-attacks-strikes-tehran-lebanon-beirut-hezbollah-dubai-latest-news">US-Israel war on Iran – live updates</a></p></li></ul><p>It is “simply not true” that the UK is being dragged into another Iraq-style conflict in the Middle East, Yvette Cooper has said, after an RAF base in Cyprus was struck by an Iranian drone.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/uk-airbase-raf-akrotiri-cyprus-suspected-drone-strike">attack</a> was part of a barrage of strikes by Tehran around the Middle East following a US-Israeli attack on Saturday that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/how-israeli-sleight-and-us-might-led-to-the-assassination-of-ali-khamenei">killed the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei</a>. The UK foreign secretary confirmed ministers were considering possible plans to evacuate about 300,000 Britons from the region.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/uk-foreign-secretary-us-israel-war-on-iran">Continue reading...</a>
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