{"id":186362,"date":"2025-06-15T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186362\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:46:09","slug":"starmer-confirms-military-buildup-in-middle-east-as-europe-urges-restraint-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186362\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer confirms military buildup in Middle East as Europe urges restraint \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe do have long-standing concerns about the nuclear program that Iran has, and we do recognize Israel\u2019s right to self-defense,\u201d he said on the plane to the G7 on Saturday. \u201cBut I am absolutely clear that this needs to de-escalate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Iran firing numerous missiles at Israel since hostilities began on Friday, the U.S. and U.K. so far have not said they have assisted their ally in shooting them down, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-armed-forces-iranian-missile-attack-israel-hezbollah-war-john-healey-keir-starmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as they did when Iran fired missiles at Israel last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-iran-retaliation-levels-never-seen-before\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied that the U.S. had been part of the Israeli attack on Iran<\/a>, in which Israel targeted nuclear facilities and key figures on Friday, sparking Tehran\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after a third day of fighting between Iran and Israel unfolded, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said late Saturday that talks should be scheduled within the next week to de-escalate the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that\u2019s still possible,\u201d Wadephul told ARD late on Saturday. \u201cGermany, together with France and Britain are ready. We\u2019re offering Iran immediate negotiations about the nuclear program, I hope (the offer) is accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>World leaders have repeated calls for restraint, fearing the conflict will spread in the region, which has already been embroiled in war for almost two years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe do have long-standing concerns about the nuclear program that Iran has, and we do recognize Israel\u2019s right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,943,6178,32,393,36,1824,4884,774,837,1815,807,2597,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-186362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-conflict","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-israel-hamas-war","20":"tag-keir-starmer","21":"tag-military","22":"tag-northern-ireland","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114687455691669821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}