Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi threatened Britain following the approval it gave to the U.S. to use its bases to strike launch sites in Iran that threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Araghchi wrote on X that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer "is putting British lives at risk" with the very decision, and claimed that "most Britons do not want any part in the Israeli-American war of choice in Iran. Iran will exercise its right to self-defense".