Iran threatens to target American, British and French military bases

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/14/iran-threatens-to-target-american-british-and-french-military-bases

by Necessary-Product361

47 comments

  2. Best get our shiniest plate out and give it a good polishing. We’ll need it to hand Iran their arse on it.

    Trump would love an excuse to simply give the order to wipe out the Iranian regime so he can spend the next few years taking all the credit for it, or rather giving himself the credit for it.

    Was it in the late 70s or early 80s when Iran decided to attack a US ship, so the Americans destroyed their *entire* navy in under an hour?

  3. Love being allied with Israel. Love it when we have to get dragged into their mess.

  4. If the regime is about to fall then they might just start targeting anything, although if they did this it would hasten that because the US would get directly involved.

  5. Iran need everything they have for the conflict with Isreal which they are currently loosing. Threatening people that arn’t attacking them is rather silly.

  6. Realistically what could they use they may have a ballistic missile that could hit a British base but currently they are getting rolled by the Israeli Airforce who appear to have total air supremacy over Iran. Excessive sabre rattling brought them to this point I am not sure they really want to continue down that same path by dragging in Western Militaries as well.

  7. Bloody bring it on and see how how well that turns out for, would just be hastening that shitty regimes down fall

  9. This is classic ‘I could take the lot of yous’ talk from someone who is beat and wants to back off while convincing themself that they aren’t. I never thought I’d see a similarity between Iran and a drunk Glaswegian but there you go.

  10. Given we are supplying Israel with weapons and training their troops it’s not altogether surprising we are getting dragged into this. Iran may not respond with conventional attacks but their ability to harm us through terrorist attacks should not be underestimated

  11. Probably an empty threat, but we shouldn’t be offering much support to Isreal at this point for moral reasons anyway

  12. So, they want to attack NATO? Well, that’s only going to end one way for them.

  14. >if the uk interferes

    Zero reason for us to get involved. Leave it to the yanks. We do not want to get involved in another Iraq or Afghanistan situation. We can barely afford to give our own people disability benefits. Fighting wars for the Americans who impose tariffs on us would be utterly humiliating from Starmer

  15. I think what we should be doing is getting together with our allies in Europe, stop giving Israel a free pass to do what they like, and get Netanyahu to stop randomly bombing his neighbours

  16. This proves the leadership structure in Iran clearly doesn’t listen to any game theory, to me.

    I could be wrong but I can’t see any benefit to such a statement. I guess you could argue that Britain and France would never go against Israel, but that feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. I know these bases must be helping Israel, but I don’t think the route to stopping that is threats to those very same bases.

  19. It would be so nice if we could just close the door on the whole of the middle east and leave them to fight it out amongst themselves where we can’t see them.

    Completely unrealistic unfortunately.

  21. They won’t do this because they would get absolutely destroyed. I mean even Israel could destroy them. Britain would pulverise them. But why are they even threatening us?

  22. Sounds like a great idea – attack positions in places like Saudi, purely to provoke the responses of the World’s most powerful military and the two most powerful European militaries on top of already having engaged with what is unquestionably the most powerful military in the Middle East…

    I can’t see how any of that would end badly for them.

  23. Iran is throwing everything it has at Israel and barely anything is getting through, do people think its going to start lobbing missiles at Cyprus as well?

  25. “Iran formally requests to be bombarded into the dark ages. Again.”

    There. Fixed your title

  27. Iran is all talk and no trousers. They’ve had a crap beat out of them for years and can’t actually retaliate with anything apart from prickly words.

  28. Iran is like that kid who threatens to do nasty stuff but realises the consequences are far beyond what they can handle.

  29. We should **not** help Israel here. Israel did not explicitly warn the UK of this. We should not be dragged into this mess just because Netanyahu wants to stay in power and avoid prison for a bit longer. We should stay neutral and not even give weapons.

    This is not Israel defending themselves. This is Israel starting a war with Iran.

  30. Realistically, they can inform the British off the record they will be targetting one of their bases, give us time to prepare to shoot down their misiles of the ones that do land miss the base by miles.

    Its a nice bit of PR that keep’s the regimes people appeased without any actual damaged. Think about it as just a bit of harmless military fun and games.

  31. Fucking bring it on. I look forward to the Royal Navy sailing up the Persian Gulf, and handing them their arse on a plate.

  32. Headline is missing out the big caveat that Iran is threatening to target American, British and French based *if those nations intercede militarily on Israels side*. Pretty major thing to miss out.

    Come on Guardian, you’re one of only two remaining halfway sane papers in the country. Be better.

  33. Good luck with that, Iran’s weaknesses have now been exposed.

    Syria is no longer an option to launch attacks from since the fall of Assad, Hezbollah in Lebanon are no more, Hamas has been neutered, and Houthis have been rendered insignificant.

    This is the weakest Iran has ever been, they’ve lost all their ‘allies’, and exhibit worries about an internal uprising from citizens tired of Islamic oppression, whilst Isreal works on gaining air superiority.

    Then you have Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and other middle Eastern countries, etc, who are implict allies of Isreal.

    I envisage a situation where this the beginning of the end for the Islamic regime. Let’s just hope that an even worse dictatorship does not emerge from a power vacuum.

  34. I would advise against this move. Giving fighting siblings a common target to hate is a decision.

  35. This is Iran who is currently getting pummelled by Israel? This is Iran which if their Oil facilities are hit and wiped out will plummet the economy? The same Iran who totally 100% didn’t know about those Iranians plotting a terrorist attack in the UK. Or the Iranians who took a British flagged ship hostage a few years back?

    I feel for the people of Iran having these clowns in charge. I hope the path to the more liberal and open Iran is a reality. Israel are gonna do what Israel do right or wrong. There’s realistically only 2 nations that have any real sway on them. It’s the US, and Germany. And both seem not majorly bothered by what’s happening.

  36. Not our war – Fed up of being dragged into Global Conflicts.

    We should be defending our territory and that of our European friends.

  37. The UK should stay away from this. If Trump wants to abandon our efforts in Eastern Europe and turn it into a source of passive profit we have no reason to involve ourselves in their interests.
    The only way I see us getting more involved is if we are attacked first or if the US make agreements to increase support in Ukraine. But the UK – US military alliance seems a lot less aligned these days

  38. Iran just got continuously bombed for around 12 hours. I don’t think they’re in a position to threaten anyone

  39. This thread is unbelievable, people supporting Iran’s regime, one of the biggest sponsors of global terrorism. Christ what a time to be alive

  41. Sure, attack three different nuclear powers, including the biggest military spenders in the world, what could go wrong.

  42. Given Israel’s accusations that the UK are “emboldening Hamas” and their flagrant disregard for international law, I for one sincerely hope we sit this one out. Israel has been far from treating us as an ally recently so we should do the same.

  43. I mean if the UK USA and France get involved with a war against Iran then they can’t be mad that Iran attacks them. This is so simply not our war, Israel are committing war crimes constantly, it has invented weapons of mass destruction that Iran do not have as a vague guise to attack them, Iran is retaliating, let’s leave them to it. Israel should not be our ally anymore after what they have been doing to Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Iran. We need to sanction them, end all trade, and leave them to fight their own battles that they’ve started

  45. I swear this region just needs all these old dickheads that run their countries to die or go into the nursing home and let some younger people have a go. Netanyahu has been in situ in one form or another for nearly 30 years ffs. And then all these revolutionary army guys in Iran that have been knocking around since the 80s. They have absolutely nothing useful to offer the world

  46. If we get involved. Which I dont really think we should. Israel picking fights with everyone gets a bruise and comes running to the teacher.

  47. Iran is _**insane**_. We have nukes, they are _trying to_ acquire them. Brazenly attacking a nuclear power like that isn’t going to go well…

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