UK Armed Forces Minister Alistair Carns confirmed this week that the U.K. has authorized U.S. forces to use British military bases for strikes on Iran. On March 10, Carns replied to five questions from Labour MP Richard Burgon on U.S. use of British bases with variations of the same formula. “The agreement allowing the U.S. to use UK military bases is for specific and limited defensive action against missile facilities in Iran which are involved in launching strikes at regional allies,” Carns replied.
Carns otherwise refused to provide any specifics about the missions, such as how many have been flown, what the targets were, or how many civilian casualties resulted from them, all for “operational security reasons.”
