What UK involvement in Iran could look like – and the political questions it raises

By Geraint Hughes, Reader in Diplomatic and Military History, King's College London

At the time of writing, US President Donald Trump is deliberating over whether to join Israel’s air campaign to destroy Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme. This is already a contentious issue within Washington DC and the Trump administration. But if the president decides to take the US into a war with Iran, it will have significant implications for the US’s allies, not least the UK.

As the recent strategic…

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