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> Iran repeatedly stated that they will not attack any country's assets if they do not assist the US/Israel

They’ve been doing this across the region. Some of this looks like individual commanders taking strategic decisions into their own hands. But it’s absolutely false that neutrality has protected anyone in the region.

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Iran hasn't attacked Turkmenistan yet, so neutrality has protected them
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> Iran hasn't attacked Turkmenistan yet

The fact that we have to pick out a single neighbour they haven’t attacked sort of lands the point.

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Okay, Afghanistan as well. Afghanistan is obviously not neutral, but they haven't participated in supporting US-Israeli attack on Iran

How about now?

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From TFA:

> It is understood the attempted air strike occurred before the UK agreed to let the US use British military bases to hit Iranian sites targeting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

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I don't think the article you linked disagrees with what I've quoted from the BBC, does it? Aircraft being present at the airbase isn't the same as aircraft launching for an attack from the airbase.
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True on technicalities. If it isn't useful to the operation of the bombers in the region, why did it happen? And if it is useful that sounds like a UK base participating in the war
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Except that Starmer was lying - there have been photos of bombs being loaded onto US bombers going around for at least several days now.
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What photos? And what reason would Starmer have to lie about it?
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Yeah, US/Israel won this war as quickly as Russia won their war with Ukraine. Incredible how much winning you can do once you get over-confident.
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> destroying

The same Iran that just launched missiles at Diego Garcia, a critical American base? The same one that severely damaged Qatari LNG infrastructure two days ago? The same one that continues sending missile and drone attacks at various targets? Has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz and forced a +50% spike in oil prices? Ruled by the regime that has no intention of going anywhere?

We must have different definitions of destroyed.

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No, the US/Israel are losing the war. Iran is successfully controlling the economic situation and continuously removing western forces from the Middle East. They are also successfully targeting Israel every day. There's very little support for this war in the US and Trump is on the ropes.
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> US/Israel are losing the war

This is incorrect. It’s grinding to a stalemate.

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> Iran repeatedly stated that they will not attack any country's assets if they do not assist the US/Israel.

They attacked the UK in Cyprus at the start of the war back when the UK refused to allow any of it's bases to be used by the US. Stop spreading propaganda.

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