{"id":67954,"date":"2026-03-03T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/trump-rebukes-starmer-again-for-not-letting-us-attack-iran-from-uk-bases\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:59:05","slug":"trump-rebukes-starmer-again-for-not-letting-us-attack-iran-from-uk-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/trump-rebukes-starmer-again-for-not-letting-us-attack-iran-from-uk-bases\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump rebukes Starmer again for not letting US attack Iran from UK bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president criticises prime minister for third time 24 hours, describing him as \u2018not Churchill\u2019 over initial refusal<\/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<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has launched a deeply personal attack on Keir Starmer over his refusal to let the US launch initial strikes on Iran from British bases, telling reporters: \u201cThis is not Winston Churchill that we\u2019re dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his latest extraordinary salvo, the US president said he was not happy with the UK even though the prime minister eventually agreed the US could use Diego Garcia for strikes on Iranian missile facilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/trump-rebukes-starmer-again-for-not-letting-us-attack-iran-from-uk-bases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president criticises prime minister for third time 24 hours, describing him as \u2018not Churchill\u2019 over initial refusal Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Donald Trump has launched a deeply personal attack on Keir Starmer over his refusal to let the US launch initial strikes on Iran from British bases, telling reporters: \u201cThis is not &#8230; <a title=\"Trump rebukes Starmer again for not letting US attack Iran from UK bases\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/trump-rebukes-starmer-again-for-not-letting-us-attack-iran-from-uk-bases\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump rebukes Starmer again for not letting US attack Iran from UK bases\">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-67954","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\/67954","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=67954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}