Iran is putting pressure on the US-UK ‘special relationship’ – but it has survived worse over the years
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The US president has turned on Keir Starmer over the conflict in Iran.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer brushed off President Trump's criticism of Britain for not joining strikes against Iran by saying his decisions were guided by law and the "national interest."
The dispute is roiling a relationship that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer worked hard to forge, and further straining trans-Atlantic ties frayed by President Trump’s “America first” foreign policy and transactional approach to international relations.
Starmer has offered a rare, though implicit, rebuke of the U.S. president, saying Monday that the U.K. government doesn't believe in "regime change from the skies."
So long as the UK remains committed to progressive realism, the Trumpian realist pursuit of regime change will put even more pressure on the special relationship.
LONDON (AP) — Keir Starmer has never had a bad word to say in public about Donald Trump.That is not being reciprocated now as the American president lambasts
