U.S. Air Force military personnel work on AGM-158 joint air-to-surface standoff cruise missiles, near a U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber jet on the tarmac after it landed at RAF Fairford in south-west England on March 13, 2026. Fairford is one of two bases, along with the Diego Garcia facility in the Indian Ocean, that the UK has given the US permission to use for “specific defensive operations into Iran” to destroy Iranian missiles at source, the British defence minister said in a statement. Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty ImagesThe UK approved on Friday the United States’ use of its military bases to launch strikes on Iranian missile sites that are targeting international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.The ministers met on Friday to discuss the Iranian regime’s attacks on unarmed commercial ships and civilian infrastructure and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.
UK Approves US Use of British Bases for Strikes on Iranian Missile Sites Targeting Ships
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