{"id":67859,"date":"2026-03-03T04:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/trump-rebukes-starmer-over-uk-refusal-to-back-strikes-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:02:23","slug":"trump-rebukes-starmer-over-uk-refusal-to-back-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/trump-rebukes-starmer-over-uk-refusal-to-back-strikes-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump rebukes Starmer over UK refusal to back strikes on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says \u2018relationship is not what it was\u2019 after PM defends decision not to allow use of British bases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/03\/us-israel-war-iran-live-updates-attacks-strikes-trump-netanyahu-lebanon-middle-east-latest-news\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/03\/us-israel-iran-war-justification-operation-epic-fury\">US-Israel war on Iran: what we know on day four<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has criticised Keir Starmer again over the UK\u2019s refusal to aid the offensive strikes on Iran, saying the \u201crelationship is obviously not what it was\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer had issued his strongest rebuke yet of Trump\u2019s action in Iran, saying the UK did not believe in \u201cregime change from the skies\u201d and defended his decision not to allow the use of British bases to conduct the strikes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/trump-starmer-uk-refusal-back-iran-strikes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says \u2018relationship is not what it was\u2019 after PM defends decision not to allow use of British bases Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates US-Israel war on Iran: what we know on day four Donald Trump has criticised Keir Starmer again over the UK\u2019s refusal to aid the offensive strikes on Iran, saying &#8230; <a title=\"Trump rebukes Starmer over UK refusal to back strikes on Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/trump-rebukes-starmer-over-uk-refusal-to-back-strikes-on-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump rebukes Starmer over UK refusal to back strikes on Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}