UK foreign secretary: Not in Britain’s interests to join strikes on Iran

UK's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Yvette Cooper has stated that it was “not in the UK’s interests” to join US President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran over the weekend.

“I think our guiding issue has been about UK interests and about what we think is the right way forward. And our assessment was that it was not in the UK’s interests to provide support for the action that took place over the weekend.  But it is in UK interests and it is the right thing to do – given how many British citizens that we have in the region – to support this defensive action now," she said on Times Radio, Telegraph cites. 

In a later interview Cooper declined to comment whether the US had acted in line with international law.

“We don’t routinely comment on the actions of allies. They have to set out their own assessment around the international law of their own actions and the reasons for their action as well, the purposes for it," she noted. 

By Sabina Mammadli