That is the headline on a June 18 Financial Times article, which reports that the U.K. cabinet was placed on alert at an emergency Whitehall meeting that day, which included the British Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Peter Mandelson.
“Keir Starmer has put his cabinet on alert for a possible U.S. attack on Iran, just 24 hours after insisting Donald Trump had given no indication he was about to ‘get involved in this conflict’…. Britain has so far stayed out of the Israel-Iran war and is determined not to do anything that could lead to the closure of its embassy in Tehran, a key Western diplomatic post in the Middle East….
