{"id":801985,"date":"2026-03-03T21:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/801985\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:03:20","slug":"europe-is-at-war-with-iran-whether-it-likes-it-or-not-israels-eu-ambassador-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/801985\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe is at war with Iran whether it likes it or not, Israel\u2019s EU ambassador says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing some member states that are realizing right now what\u2019s happening in Cyprus \u2014 that they should consider all kinds of actions,\u201d he said.<strong> <\/strong>France said Tuesday it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-sends-anti-missile-anti-drone-systems-and-a-frigate-to-cyprus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">send anti-missile and anti-drone systems to Cyprus<\/a>, and the U.K. is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-considers-warship-cyprus-iran-threat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weighing<\/a> sending a warship to the Mediterranean as part of \u201cdefensive operations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Starmer has repeatedly said that the U.K. will not get involved in offensive strikes in the Middle East. He said Monday that he does not believe in \u201cregime change from the skies,\u201d and the U.K. has learned not to engage in unlawful wars without a \u201cviable\u201d plan.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Gulf countries are calculating right now their reaction to the Iranian attack. If Europe wants to play a role, it\u2019s [up to] Europe to play what kind of role they want,\u201d Nir-Feldklein said. The continent should \u201cstand by, understand and show patience for the goals\u201d it believes in, he said, specifically \u201cthat this regime is the wrong regime and the Iranian people should determine their own future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ambassadors and foreign ministers from across the bloc met for closed door talks on Sunday, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen convened an emergency meeting of her top team on Monday to discuss the response to the crisis. <\/p>\n<p>According to one official granted anonymity to speak frankly, the bloc\u2019s concerns include \u201cemergencies, aid, support for our nationals, consequences for supply chains, airspace closures, any potential increase in migration, cyber [and] potential Iranian sleeper cells.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re seeing some member states that are realizing right now what\u2019s happening in Cyprus \u2014 that they should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[14533,1789,8612,2000,299,5187,36,1824,774,837,807,839,5338,104,15,49,1220,231032],"class_list":["post-801985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-belgium","tag-cyprus","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-keir-starmer","tag-middle-east","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-spain","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-war-in-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116167272466669643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801985","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=801985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}