British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has released a video message in which he says that the UK is providing the US with its military bases for defensive operations.

The US has asked for permission to use British bases for this specific and limited defensive purpose, Starmer says. And the UK has decided to grant this request in order to prevent Iranian missile strikes across the region.

Starmer explained this decision by saying that as a result of Iranian military actions, civilians are killed, British lives are endangered, and attacks are carried out on countries that were not involved in all this.

Keir Starmer added that he wants to make it clear that everyone remembers the mistakes made in Iraq. The UK has learned from them, it was not involved in the initial strikes on Iran, and it will not join the offensive operations now.