UK defence secretary has revealed that two missiles from Iran were fired in the direction of Cyprus, where UK military bases are., The Independent reports.

“We are pretty sure they weren’t targeted at our bases,” said John Healey. But he added that “it shows how indiscriminate” the Iranian retaliation is.

He also noted that 300 UK military personnel were close to the targets in Bahrain.

“Some of them were in several hundred yards of the missile strikes,” he revealed.

Healey spoke in a morning television interview a day after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK had ordered “planes in the sky” over the Middle East on defensive operations.

The defense secretary repeated the prime minister’s calls to end its missile strikes and “steps back from its increasing uncontrolled indiscriminate attacks in the region” and “gives up its weapons programs.”