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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned his cabinet to prepare for a potential US military strike on Iran, British officials said Wednesday.
Starmer convened an emergency meeting with senior ministers and military chiefs, where the possibility of the US using the joint UK-US air base at Diego Garcia to strike Iranian nuclear facilities was discussed, officials briefed on the talks said.
Senators will be briefed on Iran in a classified session early next week, an aide to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday, following Schumer’s request amid rising hostilities between Iran and Israel.
The announcement came after President Donald Trump declined to say whether he had decided to join Israel’s bombing campaign.
Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, said that all options remain on the table but offered no specifics on possible US military involvement.
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday the Islamic Republic's collapse is possible, and that he would meet national security advisers imminently to discuss the conflict.
“Sure, anything could happen, right?” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if Iran’s government might fall.
“We have a plan for everything,” the president added, noting a Situation Room meeting was scheduled within the hour.
Iran was “a few weeks away” from developing a nuclear weapon before Israel launched strikes last week, he said, adding that he now seeks “total and complete victory,” not a ceasefire.
“I’m not looking to fight, but if it’s a choice between fighting and having a nuclear weapon, you have to do what you have to do,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Maybe we won’t have to fight.”
