Iran Sends UK Bleak Warning Over Helping Trump Keep Hormuz Open

An Iranian spokesperson has warned the UK against helping Donald Trump in keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.

The US president has called on Britain and other allies to send warships to deter Iran’s efforts to effectively close the major oil shipping lane.

UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has said the UK is looking at “any options” to return the shipping route “back to normal”.

But Iran has discouraged Britain from getting involved.

“That would be complicity in the crime of aggression, crime against peace, and that would for sure be responded by Iran,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei told Times Radio.

He added that right now “we are not at war with the UK”.

Iran already hit the UK’s RAF base in Cyprus just hours after Keir Starmer confirmed he had allowed the US to use British military sites for “limited” and “defensive” strikes on Iran.

In the weeks since Trump and Israel first launched strikes against Iran, Tehran has retaliated by targeting US military bases in the Middle East.

That means the entire Gulf region has been pulled into the conflict.

But Baghaei insisted: “We are defending ourselves.

“The reason why Iran is targeting certain bases, installations and assets that are scattered around us in the Persian Gulf countries is very simple.

“Those installations, those military bases are being used by the United States to prepare, to conduct and to support their aggression against Iran.

“We have made it clear that the Strait of Hormuz is not shut down, literally speaking.

“We have every right to take care of our security and not to allow the aggressors’ ship and vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.”