Netanyahu: Israel Warned UK of Iran Airbase Plot — SkimNews
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- Netanyahu said Israel gave Britain intelligence about an Iranian-sponsored attack on an airbase, telling Fox News it was 'pretty much the next day' before the UK imposed new sanctions on Israeli settlement products.
- UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Sep 30 there were 'strong indications' Iran was behind suspicious activity near Fairford airbase, which is used by US forces in their war on Iran.
- The Israeli warning came shortly before Burnham's government announced West Bank settlement-product sanctions on Sep 8 — a sequence Netanyahu highlighted as evidence of 'anti-Israel propaganda' in the UK.
- Donald Trump earlier spoke of a possible Iranian role in the Fairford incident, in which a resident reported masked men near vans heading to the base.
- UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband described ongoing settler violence in the West Bank as ethnic cleansing, as a Palestinian shot dead a settler in September.
Why it matters: Netanyahu reframes a counterterrorism intelligence handoff as proof of British hostility, publicly pressuring the Burnham government at a moment when coordination over the Fairford incident — which Trump already linked to Iran — is the operative channel for US-UK-Iran security cooperation during an ongoing war.
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