The US president’s renewed criticism of the Chagos deal is reportedly because he is being blocked from using UK bases for a strike on Iran.

Trump’s renewed criticism of the Chagos deal is reportedly because he is being blocked from using UK bases for a strike on Iran.

Donald Trump has withdrawn his backing for Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal because he has not received UK approval to use its military bases for a US strike on Iran, it has been reported.

The US president attacked the agreement to hand sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius and lease back the Diego Garcia joint UK-US military base as “a big mistake”.

His latest U-turn on his previous support for the deal is because of the UK Government’s refusal to give the White House the green light to use the Diego Garcia base or RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire for a potential military campaign against Iran, according to the Times.

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    there will be absolutely no local support

    You sure? Iran itself was eager to work with the US when Obama lifted sanctions. It’s just business. People know and don’t take it personal. After Syria, people in Iran know that they won’t get democracy. And yet they are doing some revolting.

    • supamanc@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Yeah. The US and UK abandoned those natives who supported them on the ground in Afghanistan, left them to fend fo themselves after the Taliban took control. Seeing that, why would and Iranians put themselves in the firing line to support the US?

        • supamanc@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          There is a difference between a (somewhat) (maybe) spontaneous protest the the wider community is involved in, and treason. Supporting a foreign power in an invasion is going to get you and your entire extended friends and family group executed after a stay being tortured in a dungeon.