Iran warns British Royal Family after UK backs US strikes on Iran

Iran has threatened the Royal Family and declared a Brit air base a “target” after Andy Burnham let the US launch strikes from the UK.

The chilling warning came after Donald Trump deployed a B-1 bomber from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire for “defensive strikes” on Tehran.

The long-range plane, which can carry 24 2,000lb bombs and travels at the speed of sound, was used to hit Iranian military targets, sources told Axios.

New Prime Minister Burnham agreed to continue the UK’s policy of allowing the US to use the air base this week for purely “defensive strikes”, according to Bloomberg.

But Tehran has now hit back and threatened the Royal Family.

Mullah chiefs said: “We warn the British monarchy, which is the main cause of the misfortunes of the people of our region and has a dark record of dividing Islamic countries, widespread massacres in these countries, imposing authoritarian governments, and worst of all, organizing and leading the occupation of Palestine and the creation of the Israeli Nakba, and has participated most in the recent aggressions of the United States and the Zionist regime against Iran, not to burden its case any further.”

They also slammed the US for “using B-1 aircraft flying from Fairford Air Base in England”.

The regime said: “As Foreign Ministry officials have also clarified, any base used to invade Iranian territory is our legitimate target.”

There had been some back and forth between ousted PM Sir Keir Starmer and Trump at the start of the war.

Starmer had ruled out Washington using its bases for weeks despite intense pressure from Trump and his top allies.

The PM eventually folded and allowed the US to use RAF bases like Fairford and Diego Garcia for defensive strikes.

In his final hours in Downing Street, Starmer chaired a COBRA meeting on UK policy to address the renewed US bombardment of Iran.

Ministers chose to continue to allow the bases to be used and Burnham quickly agreed – despite the risk of angering anti-war Labour voters.

It comes as Trump faces increased domestic scrutiny over his spiralling war in Iran – with US lawmakers on Thursday voting to end the conflict.

The House of Representatives voted 214 to 208 for a resolution “to remove the use of United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran”.

The Middle East war has continued to ramp up over the last few days – with the US on its 12th consecutive night of strikes on Iran as of Thursday.

Trump has vowed to obliterate Iranian bridges and power plants for every ship Tehran shoots at in the Strait of Hormuz.

Burnham’s newly appointed Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, has today told foreign ministers that the UK would “work intensively with others to seek to de-escalate” the Iran conflict.

Miliband also said he welcomed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in June between the US and Iran.

This is despite the very first point of the MoU being an “immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts”.

Relentless attacks from both Iran and the US have rained down across the Middle East for almost two weeks now – breaching the MoU entirely.

An enraged Trump has vowed to destroy the Islamic Republic after each side accused the other of breaking the ceasefire terms.

The US president wrote on Truth Social overnight: “Any time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT.”

Shortly after, Iran targeted US assets in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) also said the Strait of Hormuz was “completely closed” as it continues to wage war in the waterway.

The IRGC said it stopped three oil tankers from passing through the strait.

One tanker was set ablaze and two others turned back after trying to pass through a mined section of the strait, according to Iranian state media.

About 15 per cent of global maritime trade passes through the Red Sea – a passage enclosed by two narrow waterways – Bab al-Mandeb and the Suez Canal.

Iranian proxy terror group the Houthis have also now re-entered the conflict after claiming to have attacked two oil tankers in the Red Sea.

They said the Encelia and Layla vessels had been blitzed, with both vessels belonging to Saudi Arabia.

The Houthis said they targeted the ships with drones and cruise missiles for allegedly violating this blockade.