{"id":9560,"date":"2025-06-24T03:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T03:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2025-06-24T03:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T03:22:44","slug":"can-the-uk-stay-out-of-trumps-war-in-iran-podcast-keir-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9560","title":{"rendered":"Can the UK stay out of Trump\u2019s war in Iran? &#8211; podcast | Keir Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Just a week ago, after a sit-down meal with Donald Trump at the G7 summit, Keir Starmer was telling reporters that \u2018nothing the president said suggests he\u2019s about to get involved in this conflict\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">It seemed, and must have seemed to UK government officials too, that weeks of calling for de-escalation and diplomacy had paid off \u2013 that Donald Trump was not about to intervene in Israel\u2019s war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Then, on Saturday night, the US launched an enormous strike on three nuclear sites in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Deputy political editor <strong>Jessica Elgot <\/strong>talks through Starmer and his government\u2019s response to the escalating crisis since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">And <strong>Helen Pidd <\/strong>asks, given the UK\u2019s close relationship to the US, might it still be dragged into this conflict?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span> Photograph: Simon Dawson\/No 10 Downing Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a week ago, after a sit-down meal with Donald Trump at the G7 summit, Keir Starmer was telling reporters that \u2018nothing the president said suggests he\u2019s about to get involved in this conflict\u2019. It seemed, and must have seemed to UK government officials too, that weeks of calling for de-escalation and diplomacy had paid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[84,1346,515,1347,1931,71,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-9560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-keir","10":"tag-podcast","11":"tag-starmer","12":"tag-stay","13":"tag-trumps","14":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}